Samuel Hearne watching a Native American sword-swallower 58, North American beaver, Castor canadensis 59 and Indians boiling water in a wooden barrel with hot stones 60. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor’s Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travelers, John Harris, London, 1821.

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