Jacht op dodo's door Willem van West-Zanen uit 1602

Autor:

Unknown, was published alongside the journal of Willem van Westsanen

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Wikimedia Commons

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Popis:

A hunt on dodos for food. The text with the engraving reads:

Nourishment men seek here and flesh of't plumed creatures

Of the palm trees' sap, the dodos round of hinds

All while men the parrot hold that he pipes and shrieks

And cause that others besides also befall the coops

An engraving the publisher H. Soete Boom had made for the journal of Willem Van West-Zanen (c 1602) showing the killing of dodos (center left, depicted as penguin-like), a seacow (Dugong dugong, now extinct from the area) and perhaps Thirioux’s grey parrot (Psittacula bensoni, bottom).^[1] Travellers on Mauritius described how easy it was to catch the parrot by capturing one and making it call out, which would summon an entire flock, and this is shown in the drawing. Willem van West-Zanen recalls in his travel report that his men took 50 birds aboard in one day, among which were 24 or 25 dodos, which in his estimation were sufficiently large that only two sufficed to feed the whole crew.^[2]

Licence:

Public domain

Credit:

The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius, Julian P. Hume, Historical Biology, 2006; 18(2): 65–89

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