[Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook: with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis]@TWC D-Link bookNarrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook: with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods CHAPTER II 187/255
Their statue was of the common size, but their limbs were remarkably small. The colour of their skin was a dark chocolate.
Their hair was black, but not woolly; and their features were far from being disagreeable. They had lively eyes, and their teeth were even and white.
The tones of their voices were soft and musical, and there was a flexibility in their organs of speech, which enabled them to repeat with great facility many of the words pronounced by the English. On the next morning, our voyagers had another visit from four of the natives.
Three of them were the same who had appeared the day before, but the fourth was a stranger, to whom his companions gave the name of Yaparico.
He was distinguished by a very peculiar ornament.
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