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<blockquote>ロック鳥は鷲のようなものだが、実に巨大で、羽の長さと太さが12ペース<ref>1pace≓75ccm</ref>もある。この鳥はとても強く、象を爪で捕まえて空高く舞い上げ、落として粉々にして象を殺した後、舞降り、悠々と食べてしまう。</blockquote>

In ''[[The Arabian Nights]]'' the roc appears on a tropical island during [[Sinbad]]'s second voyage. Because of Polo's account, others identified the island as Madagascar, which became the location for stories about other giant birds.{{r|ley196608}} Doubtless, it was Polo's description that inspired [[Antonio Pigafetta]], one of [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s companions, who wrote or had ghost-written an embroidered account of the circumglobal voyage: in Pigafetta's account<ref>Or the Italian version in [[Giovanni Battista Ramusio|Ramusio's]] ''Delle navigationi et viaggi'', mentioned in [[Rudolf Wittkower]], "'Roc': An Eastern Prodigy in a Dutch Engraving" ''Journal of the Warburg Institute'' '''1'''.3 (January 1938:255–257) p 255</ref> the home grounds of the roc were the seas of [[China]]. Such descriptions captured the imaginations of later illustrators, such as [[Stradanus]] {{circa}} 1590<ref>An engraving after Stradanus is reproduced in Wittkower 1938:fig 33c.</ref> or [[Theodor de Bry]] in 1594 who showed an elephant being carried off in the roc's talons,<ref>De Bry's engraving is reproduced in Attenborough (1961: 35)</ref> or showed the roc destroying entire ships in revenge for destruction of its giant egg, as recounted in the fifth voyage of [[Sinbad the Sailor#The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor|Sinbad the Sailor]]. [[Ulisse Aldrovandi]]'s ''Ornithologia'' (1599) included a woodcut of a roc with a somewhat pig-like elephant in its talons,<ref>Illustrated in Wittkower 1938:33, fig. b.</ref> but in the rational world of the 17th century, the roc was regarded more critically.