"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…"

"These people are very ungenerous, and they never give anything to the poor, but hoard all their wealth."

"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 has a child, he takes the child to a wise man, and the wise man tells him what the child's future will be."

"The people are idolaters and have a language of their own. They live by trade and industry. They have plenty of silk."