A native of South Africa hunting a lion by luring it into a pit-fall with an animal skin on a stick. Khoikhoi man hiding in a pit waving an animal skin at a lion, Panthera leo melanochaita, near the Cape of Good Hope. German naturalist Peter Kolbe says lion meat is frequently eaten at the Cape. 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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