Strachey, William

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Strachey, William (detail)

1625

A true reportory of the wracke. In: S. Purchas, ... Purchas his pilgrimes ... (q.v.).
London, Henry Fetherston: 19: [pp.?]
—Manuscript written in 1610. Sir. material repr. in J. A. Murray (ed.), The islands and the sea ..., Oxford Univ. Press, 1991, p. 95: {"[The meat of the sea turtle is] like the Manati at Saint Dominique, which made the Spanish Friars (at their first arrivall) make some scruple to eate them on a Friday, because in Colour and taste the flesh is like to morsells of Veale."}