Kaama handbill
Special Collections
This handbill advertises ‘two kaamas's, male and female, lately arrived from the Bear-Bishes, being the strangest and admirablest creatures that ever was seen alive in Europe; being as tame as a lamb, having a trunk like an elephant, teeth like a Christian, and eyes like a renosserous: likewise wonderful ears, with a white furr round them like saple, also a neck and main like a horse, and skin as thick as a bouffler, and has a voice like a bird…’ A handwritten note on the copy of the handbill from the library of Sir Joseph Banks, indicates that the kaamas were on show in January 1703.
- Photographer: Jamie Carstairs
- Copyright: University of Bristol
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