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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . would find me still seeking three vans nearly as large asPickfords, and half an acre of water. In my first cast Icannot say whether I went wide or stopped short of themark I was making for, and it was not until I had wanderedcarelessly hither and thither for half an hour, feeling surethat it was only the one particular bush in front of mewhich hid the w^agons, that I very unwillingly owned tomyself that I was drifting
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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . would find me still seeking three vans nearly as large asPickfords, and half an acre of water. In my first cast Icannot say whether I went wide or stopped short of themark I was making for, and it was not until I had wanderedcarelessly hither and thither for half an hour, feeling surethat it was only the one particular bush in front of mewhich hid the w^agons, that I very unwillingly owned tomyself that I was drifting without bearings in this bushysea. The sun was nearly overhead, and gave but slight helpas to direction, and the constant turning to avoid thickpatches of thorns rendered it nearly impossible, in theabsence of any guiding points, to hold a fixed course inthis maze of sameness. I tried w^alking in circles in thehopes of cutting the wheel tracks, but though on a pre-vious occasion this plan had succeeded, it now failed. * As with empty gun I plodded on, occasional smallherds of rooyebuck and blue wildebeest, evidently verymuch at home, swept and capered by me, and stopping. I HAD REACHED THE LOWEST BOUGH . . WHEN ... A DEEPNOTE . . TOLD ME THAT A LION WAS PASSING.
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