. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots : with an account of the indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea . the paca, for security, whereit remains for a considerable time. The flesh of the tapirais delicate, being accounted superior to the best ox-beef.—See both the above animals in the annexed plate. A Mr. Selsfelder, of the Society
. Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America, from the year 1772, to 1777 : elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, trees, shrubs, fruits, & roots : with an account of the indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea . the paca, for security, whereit remains for a considerable time. The flesh of the tapirais delicate, being accounted superior to the best ox-beef.—See both the above animals in the annexed plate. A Mr. Selsfelder, of the Society service, at this timec/fv j2/i/m^CA£*- assured me, that he saw quite a different river-horse in the river Marawina ; and Major Abtrcrombij, of the same ser-vice, declared, that a mermaid was lately seen in the riverSurinam. Lord Monboddo also positively affirms the ex-istence of sea-women and sea-men, while he asserts thatthey were seen so late as 1720. But, however respectablehis lordships judgment and authority may be on othersubjects, I can no more agree with him, as to men andwomen having fins and scales, than to their having fails. The plain fact, in my humble opinion, is this, that inmany rivers between the Tropics, both on the coast ofAfrica and South America, a fish sometimes appears halfabove the water, that bears a distant resemblance of the human. Sfibe/ka& I c/ ■ ■ ^zt/£tv/ // /////////// . I. onAon. Published ,br ./.Johnson StPauls QairA YimL V)
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