1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
EMEU, evidently from the Port. Ema,1 a name which has in turn been applied to each of the earlier-known forms of Ratite birds, but has finally settled upon that which inhabits Australia, though, up to the close of the i8th century, it was given by most authors to the bird now commonly called cassowary — this last FIG. i. — Ceram Cassowary.2 word being a corrupted form of the Malayan Simian (see Crawfurd, Cramm. and Diet. Malay Language, ii. pp. 178 and 25), apparently first printed as Casoaris by Bontius in 1658 (H…
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- Vol. 9, pp. 336-337