The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

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 (The Complete Work of Charles 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.

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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

Thomas Herbert. 1638. Some years travel into divers parts of Asia and Afrique : describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and great Mogull ... as also, many ... kingdomes in the Orientall India and other parts of Asia ; together with the adjacent iles ... with a revivall of the first discoverer of America. London.

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