the crew were slaughtered. One of the few survivors of
the attack, William Mariner, was befriended by the King and spent the next four
years in the Kingdom before being allowed to return to England. A chance
meeting with the author John Martin upon his return resulted in a collaboration
that eventually documented the experiences of Mariner in the book "An
account of the natives of the Tongan Islands", a now highly respected
anthropological study of early civilisation in the kingdom of Tonga. The anchor
of the Port-au-Prince was rediscovered in 2009 by a local dive operator based
on Lifuka
