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 entpiired into the rank of the gen- 

 tlemen, and seated ihem accordingly. The doctors (Messrs. 

 Smith and Tudor) having the first places, and then jNIr. Gal- 

 wey, whom they stiled chief mate ; the serjeant of marines 

 the}"^ 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 



