"And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a feast, he invites all his friends and relatives, and they all sit down together and eat and drink, and they make merry."

"The people of this island are very skilled in magic, and they can make the weather change at their will."

"These people are very ungrateful, and they forget all favors, and they repay good with evil."

"The Great Khan has such a quantity of treasure that no one who has not seen it can believe it."

"I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Sara…"