manati

In this lake we saw one of the great fishes, as big as a wine pipe, which they call manati, being most excellent and wholesome meat.

The Discovery of Guiana. Paras. 50-102 1909

a wine pipe, which they call manati, being most excellent and wholesome meat.

The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586

The Indians call her manati; who carries her young under her arm, and gives it suck like a woman; and being wounded, she lamenteth aloud with a human voice, and is said at certain seasons to sing very melodiously; which melody, perhaps, having been heard in those seas, is that which Mr. Frank reported to be the choirs of the Sirens and Tritons.

Westward Ho! 2007

The hide of the manati, which is more than an inch and a half thick, is cut into slips, and serves, like thongs of ox-leather, to supply the place of cordage in the Llanos.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The Indians call her manati; who carries her young under her arm, and gives it suck like a woman; and being wounded, she lamenteth aloud with a human voice, and is said at certain seasons to sing very melodiously; which melody, perhaps, having been heard in those seas, is that which Mr. Frank reported to be the choirs of the Sirens and Tritons.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

The hide of the manati, which is more than an inch and a half thick, is cut into slips, and serves, like thongs of ox-leather, to supply the place of cordage in the Llanos.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Isang banal na lugar sa pagitan ng petsang 3500 at 3200 BC natuklasan sa Persian Gulf ay dedikado sa pagsamba ng mga hayop ng sikaw o dugong, isang hayop na bares hawig sa endangered American hayop ng manati.

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The driver applied the manati-hide across his loins, once, twice, with fearful force; but even that specific was useless.

Westward Ho! 2007

And these will be released, happily, at the time of the peak yield of the manati and

FIDEL DISCUSSES PROGRESS OF SUGAR HARVEST 1970

The driver applied the manati-hide across his loins, once, twice, with fearful force; but even that specific was useless.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester