"A small offer, mayhap. There be many of these lying mariners whose lives are as worthless as the stories they relate. But what said he of the natives?" "Kindly disposed," was the reply, "so far as he went, but those dwelling farther north, where he did not go, were said to be cannibals with teeth like those of dogs, whereby you may know them." "Travellers' tales," said Raleigh. "_Omne ignotum pro mirifico_." "He returned," said Gilbert, disregarding the interruption, "in the _Gargarine_, a French vessel commanded by Captain Champagne." "Methinks something of the flavor represented by the good captain's name hath got into your Englishman's brain. Good ale never gives such fantasies. Doth he perchance speak of elephants?" "He doth," said Sir Humphrey, hesitatingly. "Perchance he saw them not, but heard of them only." "What says he of them?" asked Raleigh. "He says that he saw in that country both elephants and ounces; and he says that their trumpets are made of elephants' teeth." "But the houses," said Raleigh; "tell me of the houses." "In every house," said Gilbert, reading from the manuscript, "they have scoops, buckets, and divers vessels, all of massive silver with which they throw out water and otherwise employ them. The women wear great plates of gold covering their bodies, and chains of great pearls in the manner of curvettes; and the men wear manilions or bracelets on each arm and each leg, some of gold and some of silver." "Whence come they, these gauds?" "There are great rivers where one may find pieces of gold as big as the fist; and there are great rocks of crystal, sufficient to load many ships."