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partie, et apres le disner |’ autre. Icy fut Laurent (Madagascarois) baptisé, accompagné encore d’ un 
ou deux des nostres. 
“12. Tey fismes estude de pescher, et en prismes une quantité incroyable, voire en prismes d’ un 
seul coup bien deux et demie tonneaux, touts de diverses couleurs.” 
A shorter and less complete narrative of this voyage seems to have been published in 
German, which is translated’ in the fourth part of De Bry’s ‘ India Orientalis,’ 1601, p. 105. 
in which the Walckvogel are briefly mentioned as follows : 
“ Hodem quoque loco aves plurime inveniuntur, tam grandes ut geminos cycnos equent. Has 
Walchstocken sea Walekuégels nominabant, quarum carnes esu haud incommodz erant. Sed cum 
pariter ibidem magna copia Columbarum et Psittacorum appareret, que adipose et mansu suavissime 
essent, soci nostri, grandioribus fastiditis, delicatiores et teneriores aves elegerunt et erumnas suas 
illarum mactatione diluerunt.” 
These birds are also professedly represented in plate III. of the same work, but as the figures 
are evidently copied from Cassowaries, they are of no authority, and I do not therefore 
reproduce them here. In the description, however, at the foot of this plate is an important 
statement, if true; viz., that the voyagers brought one of these birds with them to Holland. 
“Tn eadem insula Psittacorum Columbarumque numerum quoque maximum repererunt, tam 
cicurum ut fustibus eas prostraverint. Sed et alize ibidem aves vise sunt, quas Walckvégel 
Batavi nominarunt, et wxam secum in Hollandiam importarunt.” But as no contemporary 
author, not even the diligent Clusius, makes any further allusion to the importation of so 
remarkable a bird, it is possible that De Bry, or his authority, may have confounded the 
history, no less than the portrait, of the Cassowary with that of the Dodo, for it is well 
known that a live Cassowary was brought in 1597 to Holland, where it attracted much 
attention (Clusius, Exotica, p. 97). There are, however, as I shall afterwards show, strong 
grounds for believing that a living Dodo was really brought to Holland some time during 
the first quarter of the 17th century. 
It would appear from the ‘Exotica’ of Clusius, 1605, that a third account of this 
voyage had been published in his time, which seems to be unknown to British bibhographers. 
Nor is this any marvel, when we consider how little Dutch literature is studied in this 
country, and how deficient are the best British libraries in the works of our enterprising 
neighbours in Holland. Clusius’s figure of the Dodo is evidently distinct from, and 
more accurate than, the one given by Van Neck (supra, plate I. fig. 2.), and is copied, he says, 
from a published account of Van Neck’s voyage. He adds that the beak was thick and 
1 Such at least is the inference from the words “omnia ex Germanico Latinitate donata,’ in De Bry’s title 
page. But Camus in his ‘ Memoire sur la Collection des erands et petits Voyages,’ Paris, 1802, p. 212. considers 
the account of Van Neck’s Voyage in Part IV. of De Bry, to be only an abridgment of that given i e«tenso in 
Part V., and not a translation of a separate narrative. He also is of opinion that the first four plates of Part IV. 
have been composed by De Bry from the description given by the voyagers; and certainly there is a touch of the 
marvellous about them, which favours this idea. 
