Scene in Tsitsikamma
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Hand-colored aquatint showing elephants in a stream, rocky banks, trees casting deep shadows, and bird's nests hanging from their branches. the author describes this scenery as follows:
This wild and uninhabited part of southern Africa is situated between Plettenberg's Bay and Algoa Bay, about five hundred miles from the Cape of Good Hope. It is intersected by rivers running through deep ravines, whose slanting sides are finely clothed with forest trees, some of uncommon growth and luxuriance. In these impenetrable forests are buffaloes without number, rhinoceroses, and elephants...