'Interior of a Cree Indian tent, March 25th 1820' mb-width 2919 Mr Punch tells a fat

Mr Punch tells a fat railway director that his train operators - seen in the background amidst the buffers and broken rails - are not to blame for the latest train crash

Partial solar and lunar eclipses for the dates: 1 April 1912

XII from Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses with observations and Inquiries thereupon

'Pity the Poor Garotters

'Interior of a Cree Indian tent, March 25th 1820' mb-width 2919 Mr Punch tells a fatA side party led by Lieutenant Robert Hood (1797 1821) spent time observing the customs of the local Cree Indians. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London, 1823). Original: aquatint. 1823