And it seemed to us that name and family were counted from the mother's side.
The Admiral had solemnly laid it upon us to discover the polity of this new world.

If they held fief from fief, then at last we must come through however many overlords to the seigneur of them all, Grand Khan or Emperor.

We applied ourselves to cacique and butio, but we found no Grand Seigneur.

There were other caciques.

When the Caribs descended they banded together.