The village of Fulier (or Fula people?); Senegal; with its livestock pen; grain field and cotton plantation behind the houses. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind; Augsburg; 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon. Copied from an original by Cochin Filius in Nicholaus Bellin's travel books.