Marco Polo — "The people of this kingdom are all idolaters, and they worship images of wood an…"

"The people of the Himalayas are very ugly, and they live like beasts."

"And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a lawsuit, he goes before the judge, and the judge gives him a piece of paper, and on the paper is written the name of the man who is to be …"

"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…"

"They worship the devil, and they offer human sacrifices to him, and they practice all kinds of sorcery."

"The men are very warlike and are all horsemen. They have no cities or towns, but live in tents."