She picks up the silver piece of jewelry in his hair to look at that, pulling it a bit too much to get it closer to her face. Then she feels one of his dreads. She's never felt dry hair before and this is interesting. The little beads in his beard are poked at. She feels his mustache, finding that weird enough. Why men grown hair there is beyond her. She very gently tries to touch the black around his eyes as well.
She touches the buttons of his coat, the little snags there, his belt buckles, and then the other things on him. First his telescope. She has one of these and looks through it for a bit before handing it back and going for his compass. She turns it over in her hands thinking it's much better then the bag and wonders what she can trade for it. When she opens it up the needle slowly spins around, not pointing in any direction at all. She touches it, stopping the needle then lets it go again. The mermaid shakes it wondering what else it does.