"My sister seems to like a young Troglodite, a relation of ours, I must speak to my father, that he may terminate it by a marriage."-Another being told, that some robbers had carried off his herd, "I am very sorry, said he, for there was a white heiffer, which I intended to have offered up to the gods."-Another was once heard saying;
Beste batek zioen bere batean: "Iruditzen zait, arreba maitemindurik dagoela Troglodita gazte hartaz, gure aitari mintzatu behar natzaio ezkontza hau burutzera animatu dadin." Behin joan zitzaizkion bati esatera ohoin batzuek saldoa ebatsi ziotela: "Ez diat hori batere gustuko, erantzun zuen, tartean jainkoei eskaini nahiz txahal xuri-xuria nuen eta."