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III. Letter on a Camelopardalis found 
about the Cape of Good Hope, frotn 
Capt. Carteret to Mathew Maty, M. D. 
Sec. R. S. 
On board of the Swallow, Deptford, 
20".h April, 1769. 
S I R, 
Read Jan. 25, TNCLOSED I have Tent you the 
[_ drawing of a Camelopardalis, (Tab. I.) 
as it was taken off, from life, of one near the Cape 
of Good Hope. I fhali not attempt here to give you 
any particular defcription of this fcarce and curious 
animal, as it is much better known to you than it 
can be to me ; but from its fcarcity, as I believe 
none have been feen in Europe fince Julius Casfar’s 
time (when I think there were two of them at Rome), 
I imagine its drawing, and a more certain knowledge 
of its reality, will not be difagreeable to you. As the 
existence of this fine animal has been doubted by 
many, if you think it may afford any pleafure 
to the curious, you will make what- ufe. of it ypu 
pleafe. 
The prefent governor of the Cape of Good Hope 
has fent out parties of men on inland difcoveries, 
fbme of which have been abfent from eighteen 
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