“White Bear,” drawn by an artist attending Captain James Cook’s voyages around the world. The engraver didn’t even have a specific name for this creature yet, in the mid-eighteenth century.
For more on travel and literature with foreign settings, see the following Eighteenth-Century Fiction articles:
The Oriental Captivity Narrative and Early English Fiction
Violence and Awe: The Foundations of Government in Aphra Behn’s New World Settings

