People and scenery representing the continent of Africa. Stipple engraving by J.D. Nargeot after C.A. Chasselat.

Black people gathering outside a hut, a man sitting on a lion's skin near the entrance, being served by the woman standing behind him, next to him sits a bare-breasted woman and a child, on the right a woman is breast-feeding her baby and two adolescents are practising shooting exercises