William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer; the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ork, eh ? I could manage it in Tamil, I think, but amafraid I should break down in English, for I have for along time found it easier to express myself impudently andconcisely in acquired than in my mother tongue. An incident, he writes later, highly creditable toKafir womanhood occurred just as we reached women, as is their custom, were working in thefields—for they hoe, and the men sew—and a young ma
William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer; the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ork, eh ? I could manage it in Tamil, I think, but amafraid I should break down in English, for I have for along time found it easier to express myself impudently andconcisely in acquired than in my mother tongue. An incident, he writes later, highly creditable toKafir womanhood occurred just as we reached women, as is their custom, were working in thefields—for they hoe, and the men sew—and a young man,standing by the edge of the bush, was chatting with lioness sprang on him, and was carrying him off, whenone of the women ran after her, and catching her by thetail was dragged for some little distance. Hampered bythe man in her mouth and the woman behind her, sheslackened her pace, whereupon her assailant straddledover her back and hit her across the nose and head with no WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL a heavy short-handled hoe till she dropped her prey andslunk into cover. The man was the womans husband !Would Mrs. Smith do as much for Mr. Smith ? Couldshe do more ?. ?*%;. -^ STRADDLED OVER HER BACK AND HIT HER WITH A HOE. For many weeks of this journey he hunted with a partyof Bushmen and gained valuable hints from them aboutbeasts and their ways, They are, he says, pastmasters in the art of hunting, upright, tall, sinewy fellows ;with their skill and the abundance of game they neversuffer hunger. I was very fond of them; they tell thetruth, and instead of being mere pot-hunters, are enthu-siastic sportsmen, enjoying the work as much asyourself. This experience developed his natural alertness andpowers of observation, and educated his sight and hearingto such a degree that the Kafirs allowing him to be theirequal in spooring, beastcraft and woodcraft, and in themarvellous instinct of locality, gave him the name oiTlaga,(on the look-out, wary, as of game) which clung to h
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