Along the way, Menzies says, this expedition left behind steles or stone markers on various islands and along the coast of the New World. (There are indeed such markers, but the writing on them, though indecipherable, is definitely not Chinese; Menzies suggests that they were inscribed by non-Chinese crewmembers in the fleet.)
想像中的艦隊，曾經在各島嶼和新大陸立下今天已經字跡難辨的石碑，中國的稻米也隨著艦隊到達美洲，南美洲的甘藷傳至澳洲與紐西蘭，美洲的玉米則回到水手們的祖國，進駐帝國裡尋常的農家。