We thought that they were eaters of men's flesh.

Likewise they had a custom of wearing earrings of great weight, some of copper, some of that mixed gold we called guanin.

So heavy were these ornaments that they pulled the ear down to mid-throat.

The Admiral named this place the Coast of the Ear.
On we sailed, and on, never out of sight of land to starboard.

Day by day, along a coast that now as a whole bent eastward.