China [Inner Mongolia] circa 1275
Marco Polo (Henry Yule and Henri Cordier 3d Edition), The Travels of Marco Polo, 1920, Chapter LII: Concerning the Customs of the Tartars.
They live on the milk and meat which their herds supply, and on the produce of the chase; and they eat all kinds of flesh, including that of horses and dogs, and Pharaoh’s rats, of which last there are great numbers in burrows on those plains.
Botswana, Namibia circa 1849
David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1857, Chapter 2.
The inhabitants, Bushmen and Bakalahari, prey on the game and on the countless rodentia and small species of the feline race which subsist on these.
