A Man of the Island of Mallicolo; A Woman of the Island of Mallicolo

Copper engraving - 'Noble sculp' - after the drawing by William Hodges (1744-1797). Published, London by Alexander Hogg, circa 1782, as part of, A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken by Order of His present Majesty, for Making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c., &c., &c.

Image size: 9" x 13" plus margins.

Generally good condition. Trimmed tight at top margin, one small repair at top left.

Captain Cook visited Mallicolo, a small island in the New Hebrides, in July 1774. He descibed the natives there as 'the most ugly, and ill-proportioned of any met with in the South Seas [and] The women are not less ugly than the men'.

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