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x LeBaron, John Francis
  1880
The manatee, or sea cow.
Forest & Stream 13(25): 1005-1006. Jan. 22, 1880.
–Account of Florida manatees and their live capture with nets; mentions occasional hunting with rifles, sale of skins and skeletons to museums, and dredging of bones from the sea bottom between Florida Cape and Cuba.

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