I never saw them, in any misfortune, labor under the appearance of anxiety, after the critical moment was past.

Neither does care ever seem to wrinkle their brow.

On the contrary, even the approach of death does not appear to alter their usual vivacity" (_Third Voyage of Discovery_, 1776-1780).

Turnbull visited Tahiti at a later period (_A Voyage Round the World in 1800_, etc., pp.

374-5), but while finding all sorts of vices among them, he is yet compelled to admit their virtues: "Their manner of addressing strangers, from the king to the meanest subject, is courteous and affable in the extreme....