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1667 |
An impartial description of Surinam upon the continent of Guiana in America. With a history of several strange beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects, and customs of that colony, &c.
London, N. Brooke: 1-28.
–Various later eds. Manatee, 2 (quoted in Husson, 1978): "There is another [fish], call'd the Manatee, who feeds upon Bushes by the River side, gives suck like a Cow, and eats more like Flesh than Fish.'
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