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Eskimaux making Fire & Striking Seals. A. The Great Harpoon for Whales wth its Barb Coil, & Buoy. B. The Bow & Arrow. C. The Small Harpoon, its Bladder & Barb, with the Instrument to dart it at the Seals. D. The Snow Eyes. E. The Breast Ornament made of a Seahorse Tooth Source: Ellis, Henry. A voyage to Hudson's Bay, by the Dobbs Galley and California, in the years 1746 and 1747, for discovering a north west passage [...]. London: H. Whitridge, 1748. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Sea Horses Source: Cook, James. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere [...]. Vol. 3. London: John Stockdale, Scatcherd and Whitaker, John Fielding, and John Hardy, 1784. more information |
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Sea Horses Source: Cook, James. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean; undertaken by command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere [...]. Atlas vol.. London: G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Source: Le Beau, Claude. Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement, ou, Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les sauvages de l'Amérique septentrionale [...]. Part 1. Amsterdam: Herman Uytwerf, 1738. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Chasse générale au Boeuf Source: Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simone. Histoire de la Louisiane [...]. Vol. 3. Paris: de Bure et al., 1758. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Chasse générale de Chevreuil Source: Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simone. Histoire de la Louisiane [...]. Vol. 2. Paris: de Bure et al., 1758. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Chasse du castor Source: Prevost, abbé. Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre [...]. Vol. 22. Amsterdam: E. van Harrevelt & D. J. Changuion, 1747. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Infula Volucrum Source: Du Creux, François. Historiae canadensis, sev Novae-Franciae libri decem, ad annum vsque Christi MDCLVI. Paris: Apud Sebastianum Cramoisy et Sebast. Mabre-Cramoisy, 1664. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Source: Thévet, André. Les singvlaritez de la France antarctiqve [...]. Paris: Maurice de la Porte, 1558. Main image with possible variants more information |
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Source: Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce, baron de. New voyages to North-America: containing an account of the several nations [...]. Vol. 1. London: H. Bomwicke et al., 1703. more information |