for first, India is the most distant of inhabited lands towards the East, as I have said a little above, and in this land not only the animals, birds as well as four-footed beasts, are much larger than in other places (except the horses, which are surpassed by those of Media called Nessaian), but also there is gold in abundance there, some got by digging, some brought down by rivers, and some carried off as I explained just now:
Izan ere, alde batetik, indiar lurra da biztanledunetan azkena egunsentirantz, lehenxeago esan dudan bezala; hemen bizidunak, nahiz lauhankakoak, nahiz hegodunak, beste lurraldeetan baino askoz handiagoak dira, zaldiak izan ezik (eta hauek mediarrek gainditzen dituzte, nesear zaldiak deritzatenek, hain zuzen); bestalde, hemen urrea neurrigabe dago, bai hondeaturikoa, bai ibaiak garraiaturikoa, eta bai, adierazi dudan bezala, harrapaturikoa ere.