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『アラビアンナイト』では、シンドバッドの2回目の航海の途中、熱帯の島にロック鳥が出現する。ポーロの記述から、この島がマダガスカル島であることがわかり、他の巨大鳥の話も出てくるようになった<ref>ley196608</ref>。。マゼランの仲間であったアントニオ・ピガフェッタは、ポーロの記述に触発されて、地球一周の航海の記録を刺繍にしたり、ゴーストライターを務めたりしていたようだが、彼の記録<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>によると、ロックの故郷は中国の海だった。

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.