RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. CUL-DAR205.2.143. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.
Kerr, Robert. 1811-24. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. London.
The brown crayon number '18' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Migration.
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Cada Mosto in 1457 (Kerrs' voyage Vol. 2. p 246) found the Cape de Verdes altogether uninhabited except by Pigeons & other Birds.
[This was cited in Natural selection, p. 495: "Cada Mosto (Kerr's collection of Voyages vol. 2. p. 246) says that at the C. de Verde Islands that the pigeons were so tame as readily to be caught. These then are the only large groups of islands, with the exception of the Azores, (of which I can find no early account) which were uninhabited when discovered."]
p 265 Ilha do Principe was inhabited
p 272 Annobon Crocodile & various superb
(No endemic mammal known at Azores or Canary Isds or Madeira)
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