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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . , the best, most intelligent and most modest (a rarervirtue is modesty than you suppose) of the missionaries,and having by his advice taken a direction which led us atfirst rather to the westward, and eventually to the ,we certainly for three months revelled in the finest climate,the finest shooting, and anything but tame scenery. Ishall give you no detailed account of our progress andsport, although I at first in
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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . , the best, most intelligent and most modest (a rarervirtue is modesty than you suppose) of the missionaries,and having by his advice taken a direction which led us atfirst rather to the westward, and eventually to the ,we certainly for three months revelled in the finest climate,the finest shooting, and anything but tame scenery. Ishall give you no detailed account of our progress andsport, although I at first intended doing so, and there-fore began this letter in your name rather than in myMothers, fearing that the repetition of we killed this,that or the other, probably but of little interest to you,would entirely disgust her. If you should ever wish tohear particulars of the deeds then committed, are they notwritten in the Chronicles, or my notes which you mayread if you please. Suffice it then to say that we werefully repaid for our long journey, that we penetratedfurther than anyone had done before us, saw as much aswe could with one pair of eyes apiece, and last, not least,. 3> S*- Route in 1845
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