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"Strachey, William"

 
 
Strachey, William (detail)
   
1625
A true reportory of the wracke. In: S. Purchas, ... Purchas his pilgrimes ... (q.v.).
London, Henry Fetherston: 19: [pp.?]
–Manuscript written in 1610. Sir. material repr. in J. A. Murray (ed.), The islands and the sea ..., Oxford Univ. Press, 1991, p. 95: {"[The meat of the sea turtle is] like the Manati at Saint Dominique, which made the Spanish Friars (at their first arrivall) make some scruple to eate them on a Friday, because in Colour and taste the flesh is like to morsells of Veale."}

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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