Reproduction in North American Indians (1926) of George Catlin's “Medicine-Man covered with the skin of a Yellow Bear”.

Featured on PDR in the essay The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram

If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.

Reproduction of Medicine-Man Covered with the Skin of a Yellow Bear

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1832


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Public Domain Worldwide

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