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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . so that it matters but little towhom I address them. Tell the dear Lady that I am goingto send her home some moon-creeper seeds for her my very best love to her, Teddy and Uncle Ben. Read in the light of his later life, this letter is singularlysuggestive. The exploring instinct, the geological know-ledge, the quick appreciation of the picturesque, and, 76 WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL lastly, the loyal devotion t
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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . so that it matters but little towhom I address them. Tell the dear Lady that I am goingto send her home some moon-creeper seeds for her my very best love to her, Teddy and Uncle Ben. Read in the light of his later life, this letter is singularlysuggestive. The exploring instinct, the geological know-ledge, the quick appreciation of the picturesque, and, 76 WILLIAM COTTON OSWELL lastly, the loyal devotion to his mother, characteristics ofthe boy of nineteen, were equally the characteristics ofthe man of seventy-five. I am appointed, he writes on January lo, 1839, * to do duty with the principalcollector of the SouthernDivision of Arcot—WilliamAshton. Mr. Ashton already hadone assistant—Brooke Cun-liffe—an ardent sportsman,and a first - rate cricketerand racquet-player. Simi-larity of tastes first unitedthe young men, and veryWILLIAM ASHTON. early in the three years they were together a warm affec-tion sprang up between them. Fifty-six years laterMr. Cunliffe writes :. My dear friend was then a well-grown, powerful youngman, six feet in height with an unusually handsome, in-telligent face. He was an excellent horseman but knewlittle about shooting, and was by myself introduced tothat sport in which he was afterwards to be so famous,and in which he had so often to trust his life to hisown ready eye and hand and indomitable courage. . .Coursing the Indian fox with Affghan greyhounds wasone of our favourite amusements, and this entailedsome fast work and often over bad ground. He wasalways quite to the front. . He was the beau-ideal ofwhat an Indian Civilian should be—a gentleman born, apublic school-boy, of fine physique, of generous feelings,kind and considerate, gifted with good sense and intelli-gence and bearing himself like an English are the qualities w
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