African men and boys riding tame ostriches at a French factory near Podor, Senegal. From an anecdote by French botanist and plant hunter Michel Adanson in Natural History of Senegal, 1757. Common ostrich, Struthio camelus. 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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