The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 230 of 288
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TIIE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
since there were no stones or anything
else.
Marco Polo, the Venetian, in his treatise,
in chapter 15, relates and says that (he saw)
the same cows, with the same sort of hump;
and in the same chapter he says that there
are sheep as big as horses.
Nicholas, the Venetian, gave an account
to Micer Pogio, the Florentine, in his second
book, toward the end, which says that in
Ethiopia there are oxen with a hump, like
camels, and they have horns 3 cubits long,
and they carry their horns up over their
backs, and one of these horns makes a wine
pitcher.
Marco Polo, in chapter 134, says that in
the country of the Tartars, toward the north,
they have dogs as large or little smaller than
asses. They harness these into a sort of
cart and with these enter a very miry coun-
try, all a quagmire, where other animals can
not enter and come out without getting
submerged, and on this account they take
dogs.196
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/230/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .