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Léry, Jean de (= Lerius, John) (detail)
   
1578
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dit Amerique....
La Rochelle (also Rouen?), Antoine Chuppin: 1-424.
–Engl. transl. in Purchas his pilgrimes, Vol. 16: 534. Another French ed., Paris, Alphonse Lemerre (2 vols.), 1880, with introduction and notes by Paul Gaffarel. This was apparently reprinted (Geneva, Droz, 1976) and translated into Portuguese (São Paulo, Martins Ed., 1941, and Biblioteca Histórica Brasileira, vol. 7).
  Gives a brief account of a possible manatee or, more likely, a pinniped encountered in the region of Rio de Janeiro (185-193); see also Whitehead (1977: 171), who also gives an Engl. transl.

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