| Description | Evelyn describes an expedition in 1646 by ' Mr Clappham together with Mr Philip Ward, John Webber, John Cowling, Thomas Bridge, and George Cove, all of them considerable merchants and worthy of credit, with one guide, servant and horses to carry their wine and provisions' on the island of Tenerife. He presents details about the burial traditions of the Guanchios [inhabitants of the Canaries], including how bodies were buried and preserved from putrifaction.
Subject: Exploration / Physiology
Read to the Royal Society on 13 March 1660 |