There was only a single instance in which the natives took, or even attempted to take, any thing from our voyagers, by any means whatever; and in that case restitution was immediately made, without trouble and without altercation.
The inhabitants of Mallicollo, in general, are the most ugly and ill proportioned people that Captain Cook had ever seen, and are in every respect different from all the nations which had been met with in the Southern Ocean.

They are a very dark-coloured, and rather a diminutive race, with long heads, flat faces, and countenances, which have some resemblance to that of the monkey.

Their hair, which is mostly black or brown, is short and curly; but not altogether so soft and woolly as that of a negro.

The difference of this people from any whom our commander had yet visited, appeared not only in their persons but their language.

Of about eighty words, which were collected by Mr.
Forster, scarcely one was found to bear any affinity to the language spoken in any country or island hitherto described.