"The Chinese use paper money, which is the strangest thing I have ever seen. A man can carry around his entire wealth in his sleeve!"

"The houses in this land are made of mud and straw, and they are very small. I had to bend over to enter them."

"The water in this land is very pure and refreshing. I drank so much that I felt like a fish."

"The people of this land are a bad people, and they are not trustworthy."

"I saw in this city a strange custom: the women do not veil themselves, and they are not ashamed of this."