Method of hunting crododiles, Kingdom of Galam, Senegal, 18th century. A Mandinka man thrusts his ox-hide covered left arm down a crocodile’s throat and stabs him with a dagger with his right hand. Negro method of attacking a crocodile. Chasse au crocodile. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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