Juan de Mandauila
Libro de las marauillas
del mundo.
Valencia 1524

Capitulo .XLIII. del reynado de Ethiopia ...

En Ethiopia ay muchas y diuersas gentes, y es llamada Ethiopia
quasi donde ay
gentes que non
tienen sinon vn
pie assi amplo
que ellos se
fazen sombra
con el a todo
el cuerpo contra el sol
quando estan echados.


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THE FOLK THAT HAVE
BUT ONE FOOT








Being His Voyage and Travel Which Treateth of the Way to Jerusalem and of the Marvels of Ind with Other Islands and Countries

    Edited and Profusely Illustrated
    by Arthur Layard, 1895
    Westminster : A. Constable & Co

    In Ethiopia be many diverse Folk
    and Ethiope is clept Cusis.
    In that Country be Folk that have
    but one Foot, and they go so fast
    that it is a Marvel. And the Foot
    is so large, that it shadoweth
    all the Body against the Sun,
    when they will lie and rest them
The Marvellous Adventures of Sir John Maundevile Kt:
wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, together with many and strange marvels therein London, Printed for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chifwel, 1684.

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S'ensuit le livre du noble et puissant chevalier nommé maistre
          Jehan Mandeville...
          Imprimé
      ;à Paris par la
   veufve feu Jehan
Trepperel et Jehan
Jehannot. 1512
Johannes von Mandeville, Itinerarius, Reisebeschreibungen.
Übers. von Otto von Diemeringen. Straßburg, Johann Prüß. 1483