"The people of this province are all Mahometans, and they are very fanatic and hostile to Christians."

"They have a kind of bird that is so beautiful that it is like a jewel."

"Their women are very licentious, and they lie with any man who pleases them, without shame."

"These people are very lazy, and they do no work, but live by plunder and robbery."

"They have a custom of burning their dead, and when a man dies they burn him with great ceremony."