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"Smyth, W."

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 Smyth, W.; Lowe, F. (detail)
   
1836
Narrative of a journey from Lima to Para, across the Andes and down the Amazon....
London, John Murray: viii + 305. Figs. 2 maps.
–Brief account (with measurements and a good illustration) of a manatee caught at Sarayacu, Peru (197), and an account of manatee hunting and use by Indians (242-243). The constellation Scorpio is identified as the "Vaca Marina" (manatee) by the Sencis Indians (229).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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