 Right wo and lovinge brother , we were ordered by ye said councell to go to an island called Mauritius , lying in 20d. of south latt . , where we arrived ye 28th of May ; this island having many goates , hogs and cowes upon it , and very strange fowles , called by ye portingalls Dodo , which for the rareness of the same , the like being not in ye world but here , I have sent you one by Mr. Perce , who did arrive with the ship William at this island ye 10th of June . [ In the margin of the letter ] Of Mr. Perce you shall receive a jarr of ginger for my sister , some beades for my cousins your daughters , and a bird called a Dodo , if it live . 
