The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (2 Feb 1457 - Oct 1526)
Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Martyr_d%27Anghiera Authority - early modernReferences in Documents:
The Head of the Manati is like that of an Ox
or Cow, a)
Onom. Zoic
out of
ron. Benzon.
Hist. N. Orb.
l. 2. c. 14
from whence the
long, like that of an
Otter; his two Feet like an
Elephants.
Sometimes he is about thirty five feet or twelve yards long,
and four broad. (
a) He feeds not on Fishes, but the Grass
on the banks of the Creeks and Bays. (
b) Calves and
suckles her Young (as some other Fishes) with two
b)
Disc.
ofJam.
Duggs. (
c) A certain
them with Bread six and twenty years in a Lake near his
c)
House, which grew tame, beyond all that the Antients
have written of
Dolphins:He would sometimes carry ten
people on his Back, with ease, a cross the Lake. (
d)
d)
On. Zoic.
out
of
of
tyr
breed in
, and other places.Hispaniola , Jamaica , Brasile