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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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Kerr, Robert. 1811-1824. A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged in systematic order: forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present times. 18 vols. London: W. Blackwood and T. Cadell. [1882 inventory] [Darwin seems to have cited Anson (vol. 11), Byron (vol. 12), Cada Mosto (vol. 2) and Cook (vols. 14-15), in for example, Notebook E, Notebook A, p. 81e, as 'My Edition', the Red notebook, Geological diary and in Natural selection]