"The people here are very artful and deceitful, and they will cheat you in every way possible."

"They are a very gluttonous people, and they eat and drink without measure, and they are always intoxicated."

"The people of the Sahara Desert are very poor, and they live like beasts."

"The people of Abyssinia are Christians, but they are very ignorant and superstitious."

"And in this country, they have a custom that when a man dies, his wife is buried alive with him."