Cu. I.] OF THE DODO. 19 
April 19 to May 23,1617. As the work which contains these figures is very rare, it may be 
well to mention that Thevenot has introduced a reversed copy of the entire plate (without 
stating the source) as an illustration to Bontekoe’s notice of brevipennate birds m Bourbon 
(page 5,) to which however it can have no reference whatever.—See Thevenot’s Voyages, vol. 1. 
Though unaccompanied by any description, there can be no doubt that Van den Broecke’s 
figure is an authentic and original representation of the Dodo, and the rudeness of the 
- design is a proof of its genuineness. The wings are here represented as rather longer and 
more pointed than in the other figures. 
What bird Van den Broecke’s other figure may be intended to represent, or from what 
country it came, must be left to conjecture, and I only introduce it here from its apparently 
brevipennate character. 
9. Sir Thomas Herbert, in 1627, visited Mauritius, and found it. still unmhabited by 
man. In his Travels, he describes and figures the Dodo, but without adding much to our 
knowledge. It appears to have been the amusement of Sir T. Herbert’s later days repeatedly 
to re-write his Travels, changing the words of each successive edition, but without much 
alteration im the sense. The following extracts from three editions of the work will exhibit the 
quaintness of the author’s style, and render his observations on the Dodo more complete :— 
-—— AL D OF 
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A Relation of some yeares’ Travaile, | Some yeares Travels into divers parts | Some Years Travels into divers parts 
begunne Anno 1626, into Afrique of Asia and Afrique, describing of Africa and Asia the great. Fol. 
and the greater Asia, especially the especially the two famous empires London, 1677. 
territories of the Persian Monar- the Persian and Great Mogull. Re- “The Dodo; a bird the Dutch call 
chie, and some parts of the Orien- vised and enlarged by the Author. | Walghvogel or Dod Eersen; her body 
tall Indies and Iles adiacent. By Fol. London, 1638. is round and fat, which occasions the 
T. H. Esquier. Fol. London, “The Dodo comes first to our de- | slow pace, or that her corpulencie ; 
1634, scription: here and in Dygarrois, | and so great as few of them weigh 
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