"The Sultan of Delhi gave me a robe of honor, but it was so heavy with gold that I could barely walk. I sold it the next day."

"The people of this country are not good, and they are not hospitable."

"The Chinese are a people who do not have shame, and they do not care about their honor."

"The people of this country eat dogs and pigs, and they do not care about cleanliness."

"The people of this city have a strange custom of burying their dead in trees. It is a very unusual sight."