ADVERTISEMENT 
TO THE SECOND EDITION. 
In issuing the first Volume of his Researches in their 
present form, the Author begs to express his grateful sense 
of the favourable notice which the original publication 
received from several leading literary Journals, as well as 
its encouraging reception from the circle of his immediate 
friends, and the public at large. He is also happy in 
being thus able to comply with the suggestions of a 
number of highly respected individuals, who have 
expressed their wishes that the work might be published 
in a cheaper and more portable form. The reasonable 
price of the present Volumes, and their periodical publi¬ 
cation, will, it is hoped, secure the object desired—their 
more extensive circulation. The less important parts have 
been slightly abridged, the whole has been arranged in a 
regular methodical order, and the history of the extension 
of Christianity in the South Seas continued to the date of 
the latest intelligence. As the Sandwich Islands form the 
northern boundary of 'Polynesia, in order to render the 
work more complete, the account of those islands origi¬ 
nally entitled “ Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii, or 
Owhyhee,” is published in a corresponding manner, under 
the same title: this will constitute a fourth volume of 
Polynesian Researches. —Thus improved, and imbody- 
ing much recent interesting information, the Author antici¬ 
pates for the present Volumes a reception equal to that 
with which their predecessors were favouied. 
London, Jan. 1,1831, 
