If anything that they have is asked of them they never deny it; on the contrary, they will offer it.

Their generosity is so great that they would give anything, whether it is costly or not, for anything of every kind that is offered them and be contented with it.

I was obliged to prevent such worth less things being given them as pieces of broken basins, broken glass, and bits of shoe-latchets, although when they obtained them they esteemed them as if they had been the greatest of treasures.

One of the seamen for a latchet received a piece of gold weighing two dollars and a half, and others, for other things of much less value, obtained more.

Again, for new silver coin they would give everything they possessed, whether it was worth two or three doubloons or one or two balls of cotton.