A floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River

Man and donkeys and other porters with sacks on their heads cross a floating bamboo bridge over the Senegal River. View of a a bridge over the Ba-Fing or Black River. After Mungo Park's Travels in the interior districts of Africa, 1799. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl's The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821

Arrows Bamboo Beads Description Frederic Geoffroy Lances Loincloth Manners Moors Quiver Sahara Senegal Senegambia Shoberl Stipple Topknot Villeneuve

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