A dinner was arranged on board for the royal family – of whom Cabri was a member, having married one of the chief’s daughters. Muhaw, the king’s brother, made an impression at table by casually punching a hole in the top of a coconut with his knuckle, drinking the water, then crushing the rest of the nut between his knees. One of the king’s retainers, fastidiously measured by Tilesius as being six feet eight inches tall with ten and a half inches from his navel ‘to the parting of the legs’, further impressed the ship’s company by climbing to the top of the mainmast and diving into the sea cannonball-style, his knees tucked under his chin.