This engraving, titled “How the Emperor of Guaiana Tends to Prepare His Noblemen When He Has Them as Guests,” depicts part of a ceremony in which a cacique (ruler) is covered in a layer of gold dust. The passage reads:
 

The inhabitants of the Guaiana countryside, as well as all their neighbors, are very devoted to drunkenness and surpass all other nations in drinking. When the emperor holds a banquet for his officials and nobles, all those who are called to do so are stripped naked by his servants and coated with a white balm from the head to the feet, then blown through tubes with sand of pure gold, which sticks to the balm, and the person looks as if they were completely gilded. So they sit down 50 or 100 of them and drink 7 or 8 days together until they finally can't anymore…