The Tale Of A Traveler It was Samoa, who told the incredible tale; and he told it as a traveler.

But stay-at-homes say travelers lie.

Yet a voyage to Ethiopia would cure them of that; for few skeptics are travelers; fewer travelers liars, though the proverb respecting them lies.

It is false, as some say, that Bruce was cousin-german to Baron Munchausen; but true, as Bruce said, that the Abysinnians cut live steaks from their cattle.

It was, in good part, his villainous transcribers, who made monstrosities of Mandeville's travels.