Two  days  before  we  got  back  to  our  ship,  we  saw  three individuals  hung  by  their  legs  to  huge  trees.  I  asked  what crime  had  entailed  so  terrible  a  punishment,  and  I  learned  that they  had  travelled  abroad,  and  on  their  return  had  told  their countrymen  a  lot  of  lies,  describing  to  them  places  they  had never  seen,  and  adventures  that  had  never  happened  to  them.  I thought  they  richly  deserved  their  punishment,  for  the  first  duty of  a  traveller  is  never  to  stray  from  the  paths  of  truth.

- Chapter 17