- George Mason: To hell with you, Vincent. Where are the pearls?
- Jack Vincent: Up stream at Mauri village.
- George Mason: And where is the girl?
- Jack Vincent: On her way to America.
- George Mason: If you hadn't behaved like a love sick cockroach, that girl would never have got those pearls.
- Jack Vincent: We were captured by Maori's. Those pearls saved our lifes, without them I'd be in the cooking pot by now and where would you be?
- Pat Cassidy: Them pearls, easy come, easy go. I mean, look at it this way: we did have a mighty nice drink while he was away.
- Pat Cassidy: Is that true, then? You have dragons in China?
- Li: Oh, yes.
- Pat Cassidy: What are they like?
- Li: You have heard Mason belch?
- Pat Cassidy: I have, that.
- Li: A dragon's belch is the sound of thunder. The wind in it's belly makes the typhoons. Lighting flashes in it's nostrils. His breath is hotter than a forest fire. And yet it makes it's home in a little drop of rain water.
- Pat Cassidy: We had dragons in Ireland, once. Now we only have pixies. Little Folk, we call 'em.