Continuing the series of posts from my new book SPLASH!
From Chapter 6, “A Frog in Every Tub”:
An aquatic mailman of Peru, drawn based on a description by Alexander von Humboldt after his South American travels at the dawn of the 19th century. According to Humboldt, this postman descended the River Chamaya and thence down the Amazon, with the help of a log. He carried letters in his turban to keep them dry.
(Credit: Science Museum Library / Science and Society Picture Library.)