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  • Bocanema, Colombia: a waterfall. Coloured etching by C. Empson, 1836.
  • The prophecy of Masuka: an African medicine man or shaman of the Nkose watching the future in a bowl. Painting by Stanley Wood, 1894.
  • The actor Guillot-Gorju in character as Scaramouche, in a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Coloured etching by A.E. Guillaumot, 1885, after J. Falck.
  • Astronomy: observatories set up in the Nicobar Islands to photograph a solar eclipse, April 1875. Wood engraving, 1875.
  • Saint John the Baptist preaching. Engraving by H. Guttenberg after A. Borel after A. Bloemaert.
  • A Zulu medicine man dancing in order to detect which one of the women seated around them has bewitched their ruler. Gouache by W.R.S. Stott, 1928.
  • Saint Christopher: watched by a hermit, he carries the Christ Child across a river. Etching by R. Eynhoudts after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Astronomy: a British and Egyptian party taking astronomical and photographic equipment through rocky terrain in Egypt in order to observe the transit of Venus. Wood engraving, 1874.