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Engraving by Theodor de Bry after Crocodile Hunting by Jacques Le Moyne ca.
1591
"This is how they attack alligators... They take with them a
ten-foot pointed pole, and when they come upon the monster, they push the pole
quickly down its throat. The rough tree bark of its sides prevents the pole from
slipping out again. Then the beast is turned over on its back and killed, by
beating it with clubs and piercing its soft belly with arrows..." From Jacques
Le Moyne's account. On this page are reproduced ten 16th century engravings of
the first pictures of America. To the comparatively few Europeans who saw them,
these were the first visual impressions of life in the immense wilderness across
the sea.
CORBIS
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