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.
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