102 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
show, being composed of a crimson plush jacket with enor- 
mous gilt buttons, a lower garment in the native style of red 
velvet, his legs muffled in pink sarsenet in guise of stock- 
ings, and a pair of red Morocco half-boots; on his head an 
immense high-crowned hat embroidered with gold, and sur- 
mounted by a kind of coronet of European artificial 
flowers ; round his neck hung a long string of ivory beads, 
and a very large piece of unmanufactured coral. Having 
seated himself on the right, a master of the ceremonies with 
a long staff in his hand enquired into the rank of the gen- 
tlemen, and seated them accordingly. ‘The doctors (Messrs. 
Smith and Tudor) having the first places, and then Mr. Gal- 
wey, whom they stiled chief mate; the serjeant of marines 
they metamorphosed into a boatswain, taking all the titles 
of officers from the trading vessels to which only they had 
been accustomed. 
All being seated (the crowd of king’s gentlemen squatting 
on bullocks hides,) I explained to the Chenoo, by Sim- 
mons, the motives of my mission ; stating that “ the king 
of England, being equally good as he was powerful, and hav- 
ing, as they already had heard, conquered all his enemies, 
and made peace in all Europe, he now sent his ships to all 
parts of the world, to do good to the people, and to see 
what they wanted, and what they had to exchange ; that 
for this purpose I was going up the river, and that, on my 
