Bibliography Record

 
 
Moresby, J. (detail)
   
1875
Recent discoveries at the eastern end of New Guinea.
Jour. Royal Geographical Soc. 44: 1-14.
–Mentions the catching of 7 and 6 dugongs on two successive nights in 1873 at Saibai Island (NE of Mabuyag) in Torres Strait (p. 4).

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