The Manatee frequents the estuaries of the rivers of South America, and even sometimes ventures to ascend their streams for a short distance.
The habits of the Manateeare gentle; it is even stated to be capable of being to some extent tamed.
Sidenote: Sarasota Bay] Accordingly, in a few days I left Tampa on the steamer for Braidentown, on the Manatee River, at the beginning of a norther.
Sidenote: A Manatee or Sea Cow (Trichechus latirostris)] Another day while sailing in Barnes Sound we ran across three manatees feeding on a plant resembling eel grass.
Instead of hind flippers, such as the Seals and Sea Lions have, the Manatee has a broad, flattened and rounded tail which is used as a propeller, just as fish use their tails.
The babies are, of course, born in the water, as the Manatee never comes on shore.
Be sure that the chief hunter goes with you, for the manatee can give plenty of trouble, if you do not know how to handle him.
The poor manatee made one furious plunge forward as the sharp steel reached a vital part, and then all motion ceased.
In spite of his clumsy form, the manatee had a wonderful turn of speed, and the sinewy paddlers strained every nerve to bring Raymon within striking distance.
Sure enough, just as he spoke, the ugly grey head of the manatee rose above the water, and it was evident from the slowness of its movements that its strength was fast failing.
Donalblane took it for granted that the untoward upset put an end to the manatee hunt, but Raymon had no such notion.
Then the bulky prize was towed ashore, and Donalblane had the satisfaction of having taken part in a successful manatee hunt, even if he had been denied the privilege of getting a shot.
The manatee abounds in the Orinoco below the cataracts, in the Rio Meta, and in the Apure, between the two islands of Carizales and Conserva.
Bonpland had the satisfaction at Carichana of dissecting a manatee more than nine feet long.
I was surprised to see that, possessing such considerable receptacles for air, the manatee comes so often to the surface of the water to breathe.
Stretched upon the rock (la Piedra de la Madre) a cruel punishment was inflicted on her with those straps of manatee leather, which serve for whips in that country, and with which the alcaldes are always furnished.
This fishery is most easy after great inundations, when themanatee has passed from the great rivers into the lakes and surrounding marshes, and the waters diminish rapidly.
Early in the morning we were awakened by the cries of a young man, mercilessly beaten with a whip of manatee skin.
I regard the manatee as exhibiting a wonderful modification and adaptation of the structure of a warm-blooded land animal which enables it to pass its whole life in water, and as a connecting link between the hippopotamus, elephant, etc.
But the cetacea are all carnivorous, whereas the manatee and its relatives live entirely on vegetable food.
The two last named tend more than does the manatee to the marine mammals; but there is a strong likeness between these three recent forms.
The flesh of themanatee is considered a great delicacy.
Unfortunately both the dugong and the manatee are being hunted to extinction.
The body of the manatee is broader in proportion to its length and depth than that of the dugong.
In the manatee it is rounded, in the dugong forked like that of a whale, in the rytina crescent-shaped.
In the evening we cooked a portion of the young manatee for supper, and we all agreed that it tasted like the most delicate pork.
We had to sacrifice a small piece of manatee flesh, but we trusted that it would give us a satisfactory return.
Cool being the only craft to convey passengers from here to Manatee and Tampa.
A small stream of water in Manatee county, South Florida.
Rises in Manatee county, and flows into Charlotte Harbor.
A very nice, flourishing town, on the Gulf coast, in Manatee county.
We have tasted this fruit from every clime, but never have the Manatee oranges been excelled.
Forty miles from Manatee is to be seen the remains of Tampa.
In Manatee county, on the Gulf coast, 12 miles from Manatee, South Florida.
The Manatee boarding-houses are sanitariums, where more trouble is taken to please visitors, at less expense, than at almost any other place in the State.
At this time it was called by the Indians Manatee Spring.
The flesh of this animal, like that of the manatee and dugong, must have been edible, and surely was prized by the hungry sailors and natives of its time.
The rhytina belonged to the same mammalian Order as the manatee of Florida and South America, and the dugong of Australia.
The largest manatee that Florida has produced, so far as we know, was thirteen feet long.
Another ridge, just south of the latter city, extends from the Tunas de Zaza railroad to a point east of the Manatee River, near the harbor of Cienfuegos.
The Manatee River is a small stream with its origin in the center of the nest of mountains that lie north of Trinidad; it flows south until it empties into the Caribbean, midway between the ports of Casilda and Tunas de Zaza.
It is quite safe to say that neither the author of the work quoted nor any one else has ever seen a jaguar, or a tapir or a manatee under the circumstances mentioned.
Primitive man, as is the case with his civilized brother, trades usually out of his abundance; so that not seven, but many times seven, manateepipes should be found at the center of trade.
The a priori probability that the toucan was known to the Mound-Builders is, of course, much less than that the manatee was, since no species of toucan occurs farther north than Southern Mexico.
Stevens's fish-catching manatee is the same carving given by Dr.
Now, the manatee has not the slightest trace of a pinna or external ear, a small orifice, like a slit, representing that organ.
The suggestion thus thrown out means, if it means anything, that the sculpture exhibiting a flat tail is the only one referable to the manatee of Florida and southward, the M.
The possibility of the manatee having in past times possessed a wider range than at present seems to have been overlooked.
As it is, the known home of the manatee has furnished no carvings either of the manatee or of anything suggestive of it.
We are the girls, you know, whose boat you got when the manateewas towing it away.
And Jack, looky here, a manatee can't be a fish at all, any more than an alligator is.
Again, the Dugong and Manatee are dermally alike, yet extremely different as regards the structure and number of their teeth.
Indeed, in the state of Ohio seven pipes were found on each of which the manatee was so plainly depicted that it is impossible to mistake the sculptor's intention.
I think even a baby manatee will be beyond your abilities to ship up North," Mr. Snodgrass answered.
I wonder if Bob has any idea of the size of a manatee or sea-cow?
Sometimes I go over toManatee after my paper with my uncle.
Or he could keep in the Manatee River to Palma Sola, at the Warner Mill, and they could show him through the small cut-off into our bay.
The flesh of the manatee is excellent, superior even to that of pork, and the oil furnished by its lard, which is three inches thick, is a product of great value.
It was not a manatee of any size, for it only measured about three feet long.
The bifid caecal apparatus of the American manatee (Fig.
An example of this condition is furnished by the American manatee (Fig.
The manatee gained deep water and disappeared and Frank, covered with mud and dripping with the water, wallowed to the boat and pulled himself in.
Paul did not answer, but jabbed with his oar at themanatee and struck it on the head.
Probably the manatee wants to get rid of us as much as you girls want to get rid of it.
And there did seem some likelihood of the manatee upsetting the boat, not so much through a vindictive spirit, as by accident, and because of its huge bulk.
In fact, the earlier forms of manatee were called Sirenia, and were considered to be the origin of the belief in mermaids.
Soon themanatee rose beside the skiff, so near that Ned laid the noose over the creature's nose.
Dick thought it was too much work and Ned said it was no use, because Ma Manatee would knock the whole business over the tree-tops with one gentle little whack of her tail.
You like to talk, Dick, but you know you wouldn't miss that manatee hunt for a farm.
The boys made a harness for the little manatee of one end of the line, by making one loop around the body of the baby, just behind his flippers, another around his tail and then connecting the two.
Ned was so anxious for another chance at a manatee that the boys decided to camp where they were and hunt the creature regularly.
He discovered themanatee and was nearly swamped by the first dash of the frightened creature.
For the manatee was tired and had to come to the surface for breath at shorter and shorter intervals, until the power-boat almost ran over him at every turn.
Druther see the manatee 'fore I spile good lumber.
It's full of nice manatee grass and we can put stakes across the mouth, or pasture Baby at the end of a rope.
For two miles from the Glades the river was broad and the navigation, excepting for many bunches of moss and manatee grass, was easy.
Almost instantly the creature lifted its head so far above the surface that Ned dropped his paddle and seized the soft nose of the manatee with both hands.
The next instant the manatee came to the surface, and as the creature lifted its head Ned threw his lasso over it.
He followed floating wisps of manatee grass, freshly torn up by the roots, hoping to find the manatee which had spilled them, that he might follow him to a channel which would lead out of the wilderness.
On the way they stopped at the nursery and found Baby almost glad to see them, and when Ned put half a banana in his mouth, the little manatee seemed really grateful.
Every ten seconds the manatee came up to breathe, every time he rose he was driven back under water by the blow of the rope across his nose.
King); hummocks, peninsular of Florida to Alachua and Manatee Counties; not common; in Cuba.
They were thus seated in silence, with their eyes wandering over the dark blue surface of the water, when all at once the manatee was heard to plunge under the waves, uttering a melancholy cry as it went down.
Both awaiting to hear the sounds of the attack upon the castle, continued to gaze upon the vast mysterious ocean, in which the luminous tracks of the sharks and the dark body of the manatee alone animated its profound solitude.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manatee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
