What kinds of beliefs would have sustained Chinese sailors 600 years ago as they faced the daunting voyage across the Indian Ocean, through turbulent waters past the Cape of Good Hope, and toward the unknown New World? What mission would have carried them through the frigid passage between South America and Antarctica to Australia and New Zealand, and from there back to China, thereby completely circumnavigating the earth?
如果孟西士的說法是正確的，到底是什麼樣的信念在六百年前支撐著中國的水手，冒險遠渡印度洋、繞過波濤洶湧的好望角、前進未知的美洲、越過南美與南極寒冷的交界、到達澳洲與紐西蘭，環繞世界一週後，返抵中國？