hanging in either ear, and some of the children of the King's brother
and other noblemen have five or six in either ear; he himself had upon
his head a broad plate of gold, or copper; for, being unpolished, we
knew not what metal it should be, neither would he by any means suffer
us to take it off his head; but feeling it, it would bow very easily.
His apparel was as his wife's, only the women wear their hair long on
both sides, and the men but on one. They are of color yellowish, and
their hair black for the most part; and yet we saw children that had
very fine auburn and chestnut-colored hair.

After that these women had been there, there came down from all parts
great store of people, bringing with them leather, coral, divers kinds
of dyes very excellent, and exchanged with us. But when Granganimeo, the
King's brother, was present, none durst trade but himself, except such
as wear red pieces of copper on their heads like himself; for that is
the difference between the noblemen and the governors of countries, and
the meaner sort. And we both noted there, and you have understood since
by these men which we brought home, that no people in the world carry
more respect to their king, nobility, and governors than these do. The
King's brother's wife, when she came to us--as she did many times--was
followed with forty or fifty women always. And when she came into the
ship she left them all on land, saving her two daughters, her nurse, and
one or two more.

The King's brother always kept this order: as many boats as he would
come withal to the ships, so many fires would he make on the shore afar
off, to the end we might understand with what strength and company he
approached. Their boats are made of one tree, either of pine or of pitch
trees; a wood not commonly known to our people, nor found growing in
England. They have no edge-tools to make them withal; if they have any
they are very few, and those, it seems, they had twenty years since,
which, as those two men declared, was out of a wrack, which happened
upon their coast, of some Christian ship, being beaten that way by some
storm and outrageous weather, whereof none of the people were saved, but
only the ship, or some part of her, being cast upon the sand, out of
whose sides they drew the nails and the spikes, and with those they made
their best instruments. The manner of making their boats is thus: they
burn down some great tree, or take such as are windfallen, and, put