- Having been able to observe the Typee people as a whole for the first time at the festival, Tommo comes to a few conclusions, particularly that pretty much everyone seems to be beautiful and able-bodied. Even the aged have good teeth!
- Where Nukuheva men were bad-looking, and the women good, Tommo believes that the "uncontaminated" (25.7) Typee are wholly attractive, no matter the gender.
- Tommo talks about the various tones of complexion in the native people, as well as the "papa" root some females use to lighten their skin.
- He notes that explorers before him, since the sixteenth century, have written about the peoples' rare beauty.
- There are few European items in the valley, limited to things like the cotton Tommo himself brought and an old British musket in disrepair.
- As far as he can tell, Tommo says, everyone in the valley seems fairly laid-back most of the time, with those in power mixing with those not, and markers of power or class rarely visible at all.
- The one exception to this is Mehevi, and Tommo is grateful to this royal chief's good graces.