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

"The climate in this land is very hot. I sweated so much that my clothes were always damp."

"The people of this city are very religious. They pray five times a day and fast during the month of Ramadan."

"I was greatly astonished at these people, and their women, who do not observe any modesty towards men."

"The animals in this land are very wild. I saw a leopard once, and it was so close I could almost touch it."