They wore knee-breeches and stockings of a fine texture, while their feet were encased in sandals adorned with gold buckles.

We early discovered that gold was one of the most common metals known, and that it was used extensively in decoration.
Strange as it may seem, neither my father nor myself felt the least bit of solicitude for our safety.

"We have come into our own," my father said to me.

"This is the fulfillment of the tradition told me by my father and my father's father, and still back for many generations of our race.

This is, assuredly, the land beyond the North Wind." We seemed to make such an impression on the party that we were given specially into the charge of one of the men, Jules Galdea, and his wife, for the purpose of being educated in their language; and we, on our part, were just as eager to learn as they were to instruct.
At the captain's command, the vessel was swung cleverly about, and began retracing its course up the river.