Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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Carrying Boats Around the Falls of Inkissi-Africa

(210) none of its virtue; the accident was owing carry their Canoes overland. Then a to Tuba having started without his break- large number of natives are employed, fast. Need it be said that we never let ropes are fastened to the boats, and the Tuba go without that meal again? natives drag them through the forests Our engraving shows you how explorers and jungles to the next point on the river in Africa are sometimes compelled to where there is clear sailing.

Carrying Boats Around the Falls of Inkissi-Africa — from Museum of Wonders (1900)
woven with fine twine, formed rial. The weapons of the Latooka tribe
woven with fine twine, formed rial. The weapons of the Latooka tribe

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