"We will stroll round the place for half an hour, and then come back here again." There was very little to see in the town.

Meinik was astonished, when they mounted the river bank and had a view of the ships lying at anchor.

For a time he was too surprised to speak, never having seen anything larger than the clumsy cargo boats which made a voyage, once a year, up the river.
"It is wonderful!" he said at last.

"Who would have thought of such great ships?
If the emperor could but see them, I think that he would make peace.

It is easy to see that you know many things more than we do.