1934] Hatt, African Manatees 557 



1909. — Passarge (p. 446) states that the manatee occurs in the mangrove regions 

 of the Cameroons. 



1917. — In his book on the Cameroons, Calvert publishes (PI. clxxvii) a good 

 photograph of a manatee (labeled " walrus") surrounded by a group of natives, one 

 of whom holds a harpoon. 



Rio Muni: 1886. — Hartlaub quotes a statement of Pechuel-Loesche that the 

 manatee occurs in the Rio Muni. 



Gab un River: 1861. — Du Chaillu (p. 367). M. oweni here described is probably 

 from the Gabun River. 



1865. — Gray (p. 133) notes the presence in the British Museum of four skeletons 

 purchased from Du Chaillu and presumably from the mouth of the Gabun. 



1886. — Hartlaub (p. 15 et seq.) lists three skulls from the Gabun River, one each 

 in Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Bremen museums. 



Ogowe River: 1861. — Du Chaillu (p. 367) lists this as one of the rivers in which 

 manatees occur, and some of his specimens may be from here. 



1886. — Hartlaub (p. 15 et seq.) notes four skulls from this river, now in the 

 Berlin Museum (Nos. 26333, 26335, 26337, 26338) and further states that Pechuel- 

 Loesche writes of their occurrence in the same stream. 



Kuilu River: 1886. — Hartlaub (p. 99) quotes a communication from Pechuel- 

 Loesche to the effect that the manatee occurs in this river. However, in Pechuel- 

 Loesche's account of the Loango Expedition (1882, p. 222), he states that no specimen 

 was taken in the region, though one was distinctly seen. Whether or not Pechuel- 

 Loesche received other records between the years 1882 and 1886, I cannot ascertain. 



Luemme River: 1889. — Noack (p . 105) quotes a Mr. Hesse to the effect that he 

 had a manatee-hide whip made from a specimen taken in the Luemme near Massabi. 



Chiloanga (Tschiloanga or Loanga) River: 1886. — Hartlaub (p. 99) quotes 

 Pecheul-Loesche as writing that manatees are found in the Chiloanga. 



Belgian Congo 



Congo River: 1746. — According to Barbot (p. 518) Merolla says that the Zair 

 (Congo) has plenty of these "monstrous fishes or mermaids, resembling a woman 

 upwards." 



1884. — Johnson (p. 379) writes that so far as is known the manatee never passes 

 the cataracts ol the Congo . 



1886. — Hartlaub (p. 99) quotes Pechuel-Loesche to the effect that manatees occur 

 in the Congo. 



1889. — Noack (p. 105) writes of the statement of a Mr. Hesse that the manatee 

 lives in the lower Congo, and quotes a seventeenth century account of manatees being 

 frequently taken in the Congo. 



1890. — Bocage (pp. 29-30) writes of the manatee's occurrence in the Zaire 

 (Congo) and states that the Lisbon Museum has a specimen from Angola, which may, 

 or may not, refer to the south bank of the mouth of the Congo. 



1926. — Derscheid has given a valuable account of living specimens of manatees 

 from the Congo and has accompanied his notes with a good photograph showing one 

 of these out of the water resting on a platform in its aquarium. Dr. Rodhain is quoted 

 to the effect that the manatees are found in the Congo from Binda to the "Chaudron 

 d'Enfer." It is also stated that the Musee du Congo Beige possesses a series of skins 



