MARCO POLO’S DINOSAUR HUNTERS

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Marco Polo wrote in "The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian" his account of his long journey to China. The book was written after his return to Venice in 1295. He wrote about creatures in the land of Karazan that do not fit the description of any known living creature.

They were described as:

"[H]uge serpents, ten paces in length, and ten spans in the girt of the body. At the fore part, near the head, they have two short legs, having three claws like those of a tiger, with eyes larger than a fourpenny loaf and very glaring. The jaws are wide enough to swallow a man, the teeth are large and sharp, and their whole appearance is so formidable, that neither man, nor any kind of animal, can approach them without terror."

He then told of the hunters that take the creatures as prey and later eat them:

"Those whose employment it is to hunt them observe the track by which they are most frequently accustomed to go, and fix into the ground several pieces of wood, armed with sharp iron spikes, which they cover with the sand in such a manner as not to be perceptible. When therefore the animals make their way towards the places they usually haunt, they are wounded by these instruments, and speedily killed.”

"..The flesh also of the animal is sold at a dear rate, being thought to have a higher flavour than other kinds of meat, and by all persons it is esteemed a delicacy.”

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