Native American method of fishing with pelicans. Pelicans with their wings broken are chained to a tree. In response to their cries, other pelicans bring them fish, which are collected by the hunters. From Francesco Saverio Clavigero’s History of Mexico, 1780. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.

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