Bibliography Record

 
 
Luke, H. C. (detail)
   
1925
A bibliography of Sierra Leone.
Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press.
–Records an extract from A visit of General Edward Fenton, August 1582, written by Luke Ward, Vice-Admiral, which states "Much interest was excited by the capture of a sea calfe with haire and lympits and barnacles upon him." According to Grubb et al. (1998), this is the oldest record of the manatee in Sierra Leone.

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  1925 Luke, H.C. (TS; Sierra Leone in 1582)


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