DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



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 stinted, as some ten, some 12. &c. Next unto him which 

 bare the scepter, was the King himselfe, with his Guard 

 about his person, clad with Conie skins, & other skins : 

 after them followed the naked common sort of people, 

 every one having his face painted, some with white, some 

 with blacke, and other colours, & having in their hands 

 one thing or another for a present, not so much as their 

 children, but they also brought their presents. 



In the meane time our Generall gathered his men 

 together, and marched within his fenced place, making 

 against their approching a very warre-like shew. They 

 being trooped together in their order, and a generall 

 salutation being made, there was presently a generall 

 silence. Then he that bare the scepter before the King, 

 being informed by another, whom they assigned to that 

 office, with a manly and loftie voyce proclaymed that 

 which the other spake to him in secrete, continuing halfe [III. 738. 

 an houre : which ended, and a generall Amen as it were 

 given, the King with the whole number of men and 

 women (the children excepted) came downe without any 

 weapon, who descending to the foote of the hill, set 

 themselves in order. 



In comming towards our bulwarks and tents, the 

 scepter-bearer began a song, observing his measures in 

 a daunce, and that with a stately countenance, whom the 

 King with his Guarde, and every degree of persons 

 following, did in like maner sing and daunce, saving 

 onely the women, which daunced & kept silence. The 

 General permitted them to enter within our bulwarke, 

 where they continued their song and daunce a reasonable 

 time. When they had satisfied themselves, they made 

 signes to our General to sit downe, to whom the King, 

 and divers others made several orations, or rather suppli- 

 cations, that hee would take their province and kingdome 

 into his hand, and become their King, making signes that 

 they would resigne unto him their right and title of the 

 whole land, and become his subjects. In which, to per- 

 swade us the better, the King and the rest, with one 



