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WANTROUWS TRAVELS AND MEMORANDA. 
24- Oct, 
would not put that establishment to any expense, it is very probable 
that the public would soon be gratified with a sight of them. 
His numerous adventures, hair-breadth escapes, and observations 
on men and manners, would form a pretty thick quarto, if dished up 
in good language, by some writer acquainted with the art of book- 
making, and published by a bookseller at the West end of the Town ; 
at the same time taking care to have it properly recommended in the 
Quarterly Review. Although Wantrouw had not the least notion of 
drawing, yet a few coloured aquatinta plates, or lithographic prints, 
should, by all means, be inserted ; these, his publisher could easily get 
designed by some artist, who must be told to take especial care that 
the words Wantrouw delineavit, or, Fr^ojn a sketch, by Wantrouw^ Esq, 
appear conspicuous at the bottom corner. Such a work, if rightly 
and humbly dedicated, and well advertised, would be sure to sell. 
As, however, there seems at present to be no probability that 
the learned world will soon be gratified with the perusal of his work, 
so many books of travels having lately issued from the press, and 
those authors who are in the habit of making up books, having their 
hands at this time quite full of work, I have obtained his permis- 
sion to insert, occasionally, in my own journal, a few of the anec- 
dotes preserved amongst his memoranda, together with some of his 
principal adventures ; because, as he very learnedly and justly 
remarked, 
mea nemo 
Scripta legat, vulgo recitare timends, ob banc rem, 
Quod sunt, quos genus bocminune juvat; utpote plures 
Culpari dignos. 
Museum, are deprived of the gratification and instruction which they might derive from 
a view of these animals, but because a knowledge of the fact will tend to discourage 
others from hereafter becoming donors to an establishment where their presents will 
meet with neglect. At the time when these animals were presented, the Museum exhi- 
bited scarcely any thing in this department of Natural History; a circumstance which 
led me to suppose that forty-three quadrupeds of such magnitude, obtained not without 
considerable expense and personal danger, nor without a degree of trouble which no 
one but myself can duly estimate, and among which were many exti'emely rare, and 
some never before seen in Europe, were an addition deserving of attention. 
