What climates, what fauna, what races of men should I have discovered, what empires ignorant of us as we are of them, or knowing us at most through some few wares transmitted by a long succession of merchants, and as rare for them as the pepper of India or the amber of Baltic regions is for us?
zenbat inperio, gutaz gu haietaz bezain ezjakitun, edo, gehienaz ere, ozta-ozta ba omen garela aditua dutenak, hainbat merkatariren joanetorriek eskuetaratu-edo eginak bide dizkieten merkantzia koxkor batzuk direla medio, merkantzia bitxiak haientzat, guretzat Indiako pipermina edo Baltiko aldeko anbarea bitxiak diren bezala...