Luke, H. C.


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Luke, H. C. (detail)
1925A bibliography of Sierra Leone.
Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press.
—Records an extract from A visit of General Edward Fenton, August 1582, written by Luke Ward, Vice-Admiral, which states "Much interest was excited by the capture of a sea calfe with haire and lympits and barnacles upon him." According to Grubb et al. (1998), this is the oldest record of the manatee in Sierra Leone.