They consisted of eight men and a boy, who approached our voyagers not only without fear, but with the most perfect confidence and freedom.

There was only a single person among them who had any thing which bore the least appearance of a weapon, and that was no more than a stick about two feet long, and pointed at one end.

These people were quite naked, and wore no kind of ornaments; unless some large punctures, or ridges, raised in different parts of their bodies, either in straight or curved lines, may be considered in that light.

Most of them had their hair and beards smeared with a red ointment: and the faces of some of them were painted with the same composition.

Every present which Captain Cook made them they received without the least appearance of satisfaction.