Wild Animals of New Netherlands, Early 1600s

Jonas Bronck, Rip Van Winkle and the other Knickerbockers of Dutch Colonial days (in what became New York) lived with exotic wildlife. Engraved in 1850 "from an old Print in the New York State Library" by J.E. Gavit.

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