The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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Meantime Our General With His Company Went To Prayer, And To Reading
Of The Scriptures, At Which Exercise They Were Attentive, And Seemed
Greatly To Be Affected With It; But When They Were Come Unto Us, They
Restored Again Unto Us Those Things Which Before We Bestowed Upon
Them.
The news of our being there being spread through the country,
the people that inhabited round about came down,
And amongst them the
king himself, a man of a goodly stature, and comely personage, and
with many other tall and warlike men; before whose coming were sent
two ambassadors to our General, to signify that their king was coming,
in doing of which message, their speech was continued about half an
hour. This ended, they by signs requested our General to send
something by their hand to their king, as a token that his coming
might be in peace. Wherein our General having satisfied them, they
returned with glad tidings to their king, who marched to us with a
princely majesty, the people crying continually after their manner;
and as they drew near unto us, so did they strive to behave themselves
in their actions with comeliness. In the fore-front was a man of
goodly personage, who bare the sceptre or mace before the king;
whereupon hanged two crowns, a less and a bigger, with three chains of
a marvellous length. The crowns were made of knit work, wrought
artificially with feathers of divers colours. The chains were made of
a bony substance, and few be the persons among them that are admitted
to wear them; and of that number also the persons are stinted, as some
ten, some twelve, etc.
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