attendants brought him a girdle not much unlike those used in Castile, but wrought of different materials, this they very respectfully delivered into his hand, and he presented it to me with two very thin pieces of wrought-gold.  Of this gold I believe there is but little here, though I suspect there is a place at no great distance which produces a great deal, and whence they procure it.  Believing he might like a carpet or counterpane which lay on my bed, I presented it to him, together with some fine amber beads which I wore about my neck, a pair of red shoes, and a bottle of orange-flower water, with all of which he seemed very much pleased.  The two old men who sat at his feet, seemed to watch the motions of the kings lips, and spoke both for and to him; and both he and they expressed much concern because they did not understand me or I them, though I made out that if I wanted any thing all the island was at my command.  I brought out a casket in which was a gold medal weighing four ducats, on which were the portraits of your highnesses, and shewed it to him, endeavouring to make him sensible that your highnesses were mighty princes, and sovereigns of the best part of the world.  I shewed him likewise the royal standard, and the standard of the cross, which he made great account of.  Turning to his councillors, he said that your highnesses must certainly be great princes, who had sent me so far as from Heaven thither without fear.  Much more passed between us which I did not understand; but could easily perceive that they greatly admired every thing they saw.  It being now late, and seeming anxious to be gone, I sent him on shore very honourably in my boat, and caused several guns to be fired.  When ashore, he got into his palanquin attended by above two hundred people, and a son whom he had along with him was carried on the shoulders of one of his principal people.  He ordered all the Spaniards who were on shore to have provisions given to them, and that they should be very courteously used.

“Afterwards I was told by a sailor who met him on his way into the country, that every one of the things I had given him were carried before him by a person of note; that his son did not accompany him on the road, but was carried at some distance behind with as many attendants as he had; and that a brother of his, with almost as many more followed on foot, led by two principal people supporting him under the arms.  The brother had been on board along with the king, and to him likewise I had made some trifling presents.”

In continuance of the foregoing account of his proceedings, the admiral gives the following narrative of the unfortunate loss of his own caravel the St Mary: