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Porter's Obs. Turkey, I, 1, 321), in his native 

 country." 



"But Dampier bears witness that none are 

 found in Mindanao " (Barbot in Churchill's Coll., 

 V.29). 



"The hot climate of Africa barely suffers these 

 birds to exist in that vast continent, except under 

 the care of mankind. Very few are found in 

 Guinea, except in the hands of the Europeans, 

 the negroes declining to breed any on account of 

 the great heats (Bosnian, 229) . Prosper Alpinus 

 satisfies us they are not found either in Nubia or 

 in Egypt. He describes the Meleagrides of the 

 ancients, and only proves that the Guinea hens 

 were brought out of Nubia, and sold at a great 

 price at Cairo (Hist. Nat. iEgypti. I, 201); 

 but is totally silent about the turkey of the 

 moderns." 



"Let me in this place observe that the Guinea 

 hens have long been imported into Britain. 

 They were cultivated in our farm-yards; for I 

 discover in 1277, in the Grainge of Clifton, in the 

 parish of Ambrosden in Buckinghamshire, among 

 other articles, six Mutilones and six Africans 



