Their costume varied.

The rowers wore a coarse tunic, with a girdle of rope.

The officers wore tunics of fine cloth and very elegant mantles, richly embroidered, and with borders of down.

They all wore broad-brimmed hats, and the one who seemed to be chief had on his some golden ornaments.
Here once more I tried to explain to them who I was.

They looked at me, examining me all over, inspecting my gun, pistol, coat, trousers, boots, and hat, and talking all the time among themselves.