2. “The Skinning of the Aboma Snake” at vol. 14, p. 257 of John Pinkerton, A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels (1813) <E. J. Pratt Library of Victoria University in the University of Toronto>, copied from J. G. Stedman, Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796, 1806) 1: 174, and elsewhere. Stedman says that the snake was but a young one, only twenty-two feet long. The Blake context of Pinkerton’s print was first noticed by Tom Simpson.

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