Khoisan men with assagai and ax protecting women and child from a tiger (not native to South Africa). Dexterity of the Hottentots. Copperplate engraving by J. Scott after an illustration by Richard Newton from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1796.

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