"Without stones there is no arch."

"They have a kind of bird that is so small that it can sit on a man's finger, and it sings very sweetly."

"They are a very gluttonous people, and they eat and drink without measure, and they are always intoxicated."

"They have a kind of black stone, which they dig out of the mountains, and it burns like wood, and it gives a great heat."

"I believe it was God's will that we should come to these parts, so that people should know what there is in the world."