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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue]

ID: 470 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Manouria emys - "Asian Forest Tortoise" - [FR: Tortue Brune]

ID: 471 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue Brune
Vernacular Name: Asian Forest Tortoise
Scientific Name: Manouria emys
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Caretta caretta - "Loggerhead Turtle" - [FR: Caret]

ID: 472 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Caret
Vernacular Name: Loggerhead Turtle
Scientific Name: Caretta caretta
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Caretta caretta - "Loggerhead Turtle" - [FR: Tortue Caouanne]

ID: 473 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue Caouanne
Vernacular Name: Loggerhead Turtle
Scientific Name: Caretta caretta
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle [Chelonia mydas] whose head is larger.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 474 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 475 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Fishing
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 476 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Labour & Fishermen Nationality
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
The turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
Original Document: View Source ↗

Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 477 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
Original Document: View Source ↗

Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 478 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Trade & Commerce
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
Original Document: View Source ↗

Eretmochelys imbricata - "Clapboard Turtle" - [FR: Tortue a Clin]

ID: 479 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue a Clin
Vernacular Name: Clapboard Turtle
Scientific Name: Eretmochelys imbricata
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Consumption, Use & Preparations
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Trichechus inunguis - "Manatee" - [FR: Lamentin]

ID: 480 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Lamentin
Vernacular Name: Manatee
Scientific Name: Trichechus inunguis
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Trichechus inunguis - "Manatee" - [FR: Lamentin]

ID: 481 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Lamentin
Vernacular Name: Manatee
Scientific Name: Trichechus inunguis
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Trade & Commerce
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Chelonioidea - "Sea Turtle" - [FR: Tortue]

ID: 482 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Tortue
Vernacular Name: Sea Turtle
Scientific Name: Chelonioidea
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Trade & Commerce
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
Salted turtles are also rarely brought there.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Scomber scombrus - "Mackerel" - [FR: Maquereau]

ID: 483 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Maquereau
Vernacular Name: Mackerel
Scientific Name: Scomber scombrus
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Carangidae - "Trevally" - [FR: Carangue]

ID: 484 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Carangue
Vernacular Name: Trevally
Scientific Name: Carangidae
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green.
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Alosa alosa - "Shad" - [FR: Alose]

ID: 485 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Alose
Vernacular Name: Shad
Scientific Name: Alosa alosa
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Sarda sarda - "Bonito" - [FR: Sarde]

ID: 486 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Sarde
Vernacular Name: Bonito
Scientific Name: Sarda sarda
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Perca fluviatilis - "European Perch" - [FR: Parques]

ID: 487 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Parques
Vernacular Name: European Perch
Scientific Name: Perca fluviatilis
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Esox (Esox) lucius - "Northern Pike" - [FR: Bracheto?]

ID: 488 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Bracheto?
Vernacular Name: Northern Pike
Scientific Name: Esox (Esox) lucius
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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Mullus surmuletus - "Mullet" - [FR: Rouget]

ID: 489 | ID2: 36
Document Type: Received
Original French Name: Rouget
Vernacular Name: Mullet
Scientific Name: Mullus surmuletus
Location: Windward Islands, Lesser Antilles.
Region: Caribbean
Ocean: Atlantic
Year: 1722
Data Type: Observation
📝 Data Remarks / Observations:
These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
📖 Full Translated Text:
The second way to take turtles is to turn them. The fishermen stand waiting in coves then when the turtle arrives and has climbed onto the sand they run there and turn them on their back then leave it there to go to others. The third way is with the varre but you don't take ten in a year this way. It is only by chance that we use this instrument. There are four kinds of turtles in the Windward Islands, namely, brown turtles (tortue franche), which are very good to eat. It is the only species commonly eaten. The caret is the only turtle that produces scale, flesh and is red. And if you eat it then you have warts, you will soon be covered in pustules and abscesses. The turtle called loggerhead, this one has a very bad taste. We turn it into burning oil. There are few of them and they are different from the brown turtle whose head is larger. The fourth is called a clapboard turtle(tortue ? clin). We haven't seen them on the islands for a long time. It is still fished towards the island of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barth?lemy. This turtle is very large. It takes ten men to turn it. Its shell is soft and this turtle is only good for making burning oil. Tortoises are not natural to the Windward Islands. We sometimes bring them from Testigue(?) where there are a lot of them. We don't eat them much though lack of habit as they are rare. The biggest ones I saw were about six inches wide and ten inches long.We no longer fish for manatee in the Windward Islands. It's been more than thirty years since we last saw one there. No salted manatee meat is brought to the Windward Islands and nothing can replace the beef and pork meat that comes from Europe. Salted turtles are also rarely brought there. We see in Martinique thazard, carengue of two species, namely, big-eyed and green. These are the best and are worth excellent shad, sardes in some places, parques, bracheto, mulets of the Portuguese, surgeons?fish, moonsfish, cofferfish, vives, beaumes, saury mothers, saurys, trumpets, bananafish, small soles which are worth nothing, cups, dog food(manger ? chien), some excellent vieilles
Source: Form and report Martinique (7)
Recorded By: Emma Millet
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