Franciscan monk Giovanni Carpini, who arrived at the camp of Khan Batu in 1246, whom he calls "emperor" in his descriptions, recorded interesting stories of the Mongols about the war between Batu's army and the race of dog-people, in which women were human and men were dogs.
“When they returned through the deserts, they came to a certain land in which, as we, when we came to the court of the emperor, spoke for the faithful Russian clerics and other Tatars who had been among them for a long time, found some monsters that had a female appearance.
And when, through many interpreters, they asked them where the men of that country were, the female monsters replied that in that land all women who were just born have a human appearance, while men have a doglike appearance.
And while they were dragging out their stay in the above-named land, dogs gathered together on the other side of the river, and since it was a fierce winter, all the male dogs rushed into the water, and after that, on solid ground, they began to roll in the dust, and thus the dust mixed with water, began to freeze on them. And after frequent repetition of this, thick ice formed on them, then in a strong onslaught they converged to fight the Tatars.
And they often threw arrows at them, but the arrows bounced back as if they were throwing them at stones; also the other weapons of the Tatars could in no way harm them.
The dogs, having raided them, wounded many with their bites and killed and thus drove them out of their borders. And from here they still have a proverb: "Your father or brother was killed by dogs." The Tatars took their women, whom they captured, to their country, and they were there until their death."
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Giovanni Plano Carpini, an Italian Franciscan, the first of the Europeans, before Rubruc and Andre de Longjumeau, who visited the Mongol Empire and left a description of his journey.
John described his experience of visiting the empire in the manuscripts Historia Mongalorum quos nos Tartaros appellamus (“History of the Mongals, whom we call Tatars”) and Liber Tartarorum (“Book of the Tatars”).