Caretta or hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. Critically endangered. Copperplate engraving from James Bruce's "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773," London, 1790. James Bruce (1730-1794) was a Scottish explorer and travel writer who spent more than 12 years in North Africa and Ethiopia. Engraved by Heath after an original drawing by Bruce.

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