“ We have traversed more than one hundred thousand li * of immense waterspaces and have beheld in the ocean huge waves like mountains rising skyhigh, and we have set eyes on barbarian regions far away... while our sails loftily unfurled like clouds day and night continued their course (rapid like that) of a star, traversing those savage waves as if we were treading a public thoroughfare. ” ​ — Fifteenth - century inscription at Changle, Fujian, China, attributed to Zheng He.
‏ ” הפלגנו מרחק של למעלה ממאה אלף לי * במרחבים העצומים של האוקיינוס וחזינו בגלים אדירים שהתנשאו לגובה רב כמו הרים.