Three  Days  after  June  26,  the  News  having  spread  itself  farther  into  the
Country,  another  great  Number  of  People  were  assembled,  and  among
them  their  KING  himself,  a  Man  of  a  comely  Presence  and  SUture,  attended


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with  a  Guard  of  an  hundred  tall  stout  Men,  having^  sent  two  Ambassadors
before,  to  tell  the  General  their  Hioh,  or  King-,  was  coming  ;  one  of  them
in  delivering  his  Message  spake  low,  which  the  other  repeated  Verbatim
with  a  loud  Voice,  wherein  they  continued  about  half  an  Hour ;  which
ended  by  Signs  they  desired  some  Present  to  their  King  to  assure  him  of
coming  in  Peace,  which  the  General  willingly  granted,  and  they  joyfully
went  back  to  their  Hioh. A  while  after,  their  King  with  all  his  Train
appeared  in  as  much  Pomp  as  he  could,  some  loudly  crying  and  singing
before  him  ;  as  they  came  nearer,  they  seemed  greater  in  their  Actions :
In  the  Front  l)efore  him  marched  a  tall  Man  of  a  good  Countenance,  carry-
ing the  Sceptre,  or  Mace  Royal,  of  black  Wood,  about  a  Yard  and  half
long,  upon  which  hung  two  Crowns,  one  less  than  the  other,  with  three
rery  long  Chains  oft  doubled,  and  a  Bag  of  the  Herb  Tobah  ;  the  Crowns
were  of  Knit-work  wrought  curiously  with  Feathers  of  divers  Colours,  and
of  a  good  Fashion,  the  Chains  seemed  of  Bone,  the  L/inks  tNeing  in  one
Chain  was  almost  innumerable,  and  worn  by  very  few,  who  are  stinted  to
their  Number,  some  of  ten,  twelve,  or  twenty,  as  they  exceed  in  Chains,
are  thereby  accounted  more  honourable. Next  the  Sceptre  bearer  came  the
King  himself,  with  his  Guard  about  him,  having  on  his  Head  a  Knit  work
Cawl,  wrought  somewhat  like  a  Crown,  and  on  his  Shoulders  a  Coat  of
Rabbet  Skins  reaching  to  his  Waste. The  Coats  of  his  Guard  were  of  the
same  Shape,  but  other  Skins,  having  Cawls  with  Feathers,  covered  with  a
Down  growing  on  an  Herb,  exceeding  any  other  Down  for  Fineness,  and
not  to  be  used  by  any  but  those  about  the  King's  Person,  who  are  also  per-
mitted to  wear  a  Plume  of  Feathers  on  his  Head,  in  sign  of  honour,  and
the  Seeds  of  this  Herb,  are  used  only  in  Sacrifice  to  their  Gods. 