While supper was preparing, orders were given to show them the city, where they saw public structures that reared their lofty heads to the clouds; the marketplaces decorated with a thousand columns; fountains of spring water, besides others of rose water, and of liquors drawn from the sugarcane, incessantly flowing in the great squares, which were paved with a kind of precious stones that emitted an odor like that of cloves and cinnamon.
En attendant, on leur fit voir la ville, les édifices publics élevés jusqu'aux nues, les marchés ornés de mille colonnes, les fontaines d'eau pure, les fontaines d'eau-rose, celles de liqueurs de cannes de sucre qui coulaient continuellement dans de grandes places pavées d'une espèce de pierreries qui répandaient une odeur semblable à celle du girofle et de la cannelle.