"They have no religion, and they believe in nothing but what they see with their own eyes."

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

"The people of China are very cleanly in their persons, and they eat with chopsticks."

"In this country, there is a kind of tree that produces cotton, and it is so plentiful that they make all their clothes from it."

"The people of Cathay are idolaters, and they burn their dead."