Edwards, William H.

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Edwards, William H. (detail)
1847A voyage up the River Amazon.
New York, D. Appleton & Co.: 1-256. Illus.
—Describes the external appearance of an Amazonian manatee and the hunting and use of manatees by Indians (187-188, 1 fig.). The skull was given to a Dr. Morton, who recognized it as a species distinct from the West Indian manatee. Also mentions a manatee in captivity in Pará (= Belém), and two taken to New York by a Captain Appleton. A British ed. (London, John Murray: 1-210, 1847) has the identical material on pp. 149-150 but lacks the fig.