446 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



1744. OEXMELIN, A. O. Continued. 



tion) of the external characters and internal structure of the Manatee, its habits, capture, 

 etc. , with an (apparently) original figure. The figure, like Labat 's, represents an old Manatee 

 with a young one in her firms; the figure is more artistic than Labat's, and has the head of 

 the young one directed forward instead of backward. 



The first French edition, said to be of "extreme rarity," and a translation from the Eng- 

 lish, was published at Paris in 1686, 2 vols., 12. This I have not seen, and therefore cannot 

 say wherein the matter relating to the Manatee differs from that of the present "corrected 

 and enlarged" edition. This is the first edition of the Buccaneers I have seen which con- 

 tains a figure of the Manatee. The matter in this edition is almost entirely different through- 

 out from that of the Spanish, Dutch, and English editions (see anted,, 1678. EXQUEMELIN, A. 

 O.), and covers many points relating to the Manatee not mentioned in those. This is doubt- 

 less explained by the following transcript from the translator's preface of the present editions 

 "La Relation qu'il a ecrite de ce que la nature produit dans les Isles de Saint Domingue & de 

 la Tortue se trouve & la fin du premier Tome, on a choisi cet ordre pour ne pas interrompre le 

 fil de 1'Histoire des Flibustiers; on 1'a meme augmentee sur de nouveaux M6moires conte- 

 nant la Relation du naufrage de Monsieur d'Ogeron a Puerto Ricco, 1'Histoire du Capitaine 

 Montauban; les Expeditions de Campeche, de la Vera Cruz, de Cartage 1 ne, & les courses de 

 plusieurs Capitaines Flibusters, dont la valeur est presentement aussi connue en Europe 

 qu'elle est estim6e dans les Indes." The plate illustrating the chapter vi here cited rep- 

 resents (upper half) the "Maniere de Pecher la Tortue." Below this is the figure of "le 

 Lamantin," and at the bottom of the plate three different forms of harpoon used in captur- 

 ing Turtles and Lamantines. 



The engraved title of this edition is dated 1743. The following is a transcript : 



Histoire | des | Avanturiers | des | Boucaniers | et | de la Chambre J des 

 Comptes, | e'tablie | dans les | Indes | 1743. 



Respecting the various translations and editions of Oexmelin [=Exquemelin; also written 

 EsquemelingJ, see Sabin, JBibl. Amer., vi, pp. 309-318, 328, nos. 23468-23494; also, supra, 1678. 



EXQUEMELEt, A. O. [227. 1 



1744. "ROEDE, . Diss. de pisce qui lonam deglutivit, cuiusnam specie! fuerifc. 

 Hafn. 1744. 4." 



Not seen; title from Donndorff, Zool. Beytr., i, 1792, p. 776. [228.] 



1744. "WiJBO, J. CANZIUS. Dissertatio de balaenarum piscatu. Lugd. Bat., 1774. 



4." 



Not seen; from Bosgoed, op. tit., p. 253, no. 3G09. [229.1 



1745. "EGEDE.H. A | Description | of | Greenland. | Shewing | The Natural History, 



Situation, Boundaries, | and face of the Country; the Nature of the | Soil; the 

 Eise and Progress of the old Nor- | wegian Colonies ; the ancient and modern | 

 Inhabitants; their Genius and Way of Life, | and Produce of the Soil; their 

 Plants, Beasts, | Fishes, &c. | with | A new Map of Greenland. | And | Several 

 Copper Plates representing different Animals, | Birds and Fishes, the Green- 

 landers Way of Hunting | and Fishing; their Habitations, Dress, Sports | 

 and diversions, &c. | | By Mr. Hans Egede, | Missionary in that Country 

 for twenty-five Years. | | Translated from the Danish. | | London: | 

 Printed for C. Hitch in Paternoster Row; S. Austen in | Newgate-Street; and 

 J. Jackson near St. James's Gate. | MDCCXLV. 1 vol. sm. 8. pp. xvi-J-2 

 11., 220, with 12 copperpll." 



"Chap, vi, pp. 65-99, ' Of the Greenland Sea Animals, and Sea Fowl and Fishes.' " 



Not seen; title from Cones, Birds Colorado Valley, 1878, p. 578. [230.] 



1745. GUMILLA, J. El Orinoco | Ilustrado, y Defendido, | Historia Natural, | Civil, y 

 Geographica | De este Gran Rio, | y de sus caudolosas vertientes: | Govierno, 

 Usos, y Costumbres de los Indies | sus habitadotes, con neuvas, y utiles noti- 

 cias de Animates, Arboles, | Fiutos Aceytes, Refinas, Yervas, y Raices medici- 

 nales ; y sobrestodo, se hallaran couvetsiones muy singulares a N. Santa F<5, | 

 y casos cle mucha edificaciou. | Escrita | Por el Padre Joseph Gumilla, de la 

 Coma-ilia de Jesus | . . . [= titles, 6 lines] | Segunda Impression, Revista y 

 Augmentada | por su mismo Autor, y dividida en dos Partes. | Toino [Seal] 

 Primero | J En Madrid: Por Manuel Fernandez, Impressor de el Supremo | 



