Title

Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. A '...feature of some interest is one of the "lake dwellings," the huts erected over the water upon posts or piles, in Lake Moheya, which is a sort of construction also met with in the marshy parts of New Guinea and of Borneo. There are relics of a similar kind on the shores of some lakes in Switzerland, and in other countries of Europe, formerly inhabited by the prehistoric races of mankind'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_209

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54,5Mb (4,9Mb) / 16,5in x 12,8in / 4960 x 3839 (300dpi)

Keywords

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