Some of these pearls were bigger than a pigeon egg; they more than equaled the one that the explorer Tavernier sold the Shah of Persia for 3,000,000 francs, and they surpassed that other pearl owned by the Imam of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivaled in the entire world.
Quelques-unes de ces perles surpassaient en grosseur un oeuf de pigeon ; elles valaient, et au-delà, celle que le voyageur Tavernier vendit trois millions au shah de Perse, et primaient cette autre perle de l'iman de Mascate, que je croyais sans rivale au monde.