RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa et Asia the Great. CUL-DAR205.3.253. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.
Thomas Herbert. 1638. Some Yeares Travels into Africa et Asia the Great, etc. London.
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"Some Yeares Travels." in 1626 by Thos. Herbert. (published 1638) folio
p. 349 Tortoises Dodo & Manatee at Mauritius. (the former at Dygarrois, evidently Rodriguez by description)
- says rats bats monkey Boars Goats & Beavers "most of which useful & unuseful creatures were brought hither, men say, by the Portugal"
p. 351 Bourbon no creature till his Captain landed some
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