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Citation Information
THE DESCRIPTION OF THE WORLD, THE HUNTING ANIMALS
days marches round the place where he is all people must hunt and catch birds,
and sends those who know how to take the big animals. And this is determined and ordered, FB
that each lord of people and of lands—that all large animals' that are taken, as are VA
wild-boar and stags and bucks and roe-deer and bears, lions, ounces, and other sorts FB FA
of large wild beasts which are of similar size, • and other birds, be brought to him, that vA FA
is to say the greater part of those large animals. And they observe this way in taking R
them : each lord of the province makes all the hunters of the land come with him, and they go
wherever the animals may be, hemming them in all round, and kill them with dogs and the
greater part with arrows. And in such fashion did all the people hunt of which I have
told you. And [4ib] all those beasts which they wish to send to the great lord, they FB
have all the entrails within the belly taken out, then they put them on the carts
or on boats and send them to the lord. And those of whom I have told you at twenty and VA LT FB
at thirty days marches from the great Kaan do this, and they are a very great number. VA
And those who are sixty2 days marches away do not send him the flesh because it
is too long a way, but they send him all the skins made up and prepared, and others R
which are not dressed, so that the great lord may have made of them all his needs
for the making of arms and for the hosts. Now I have told you of the making of
the chase, and then we shall tell you of the fierce beasts which the great lord keeps
for the chase and to have his delight with them. FB
HERE HE TELLS OF LIONS AND OF LEOPARDS AND OF LYNXES WHICH ARE TRAINED TO TAKE ANIMALS, AND HE SPEAKS ALSO OF GERFALCONS AND OF FALCONS AND OF OTHER BIRDS. YOU may know again that the great lord has indeed fierce animals with which he hunts, namely • tame leopards enough which are L P
all good at hunting with men and at taking animals. He has also a very great number P
of lynxes which are all trained to beast-catching and are very good at the chase.
He has many very large lions, much larger than those of Babilonie. They are of very
beautiful skin and of very beautiful colour, for they are striped all over lengthwise L
black and red and white, and they are too bcautiful a thing to see.. And they are very well VA L L
trained likewise to hunt with men and to take wild boar and the wild oxen and bears P
and wild asses and harts and roe-buck and very many other wild animals. Moreover L VA
I tell you that it is a very fine thing to look at the fierce beasts that the lions take; • FB
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1 & est establi S ordree ce qe chascun ... terres qe toutes grant bestes The old versions on the whole support the clumsy translation given. E.g. V: et questo sono ordenado ai signori de le tere the li
debiafar chonzar le gran bestie Otherwise one might supply doit faire and take ce qe naturally as "that which". VA simply: E the zaschuno die portar al signior. . .
2 FA,FB omit. TA',LT,V,R "forty" P: ultra.xxx. TA': in 30 migla See p.226 n.3.
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