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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ^ worked out by courses anddistances. The height is an approximation only, asascertained by one of Newmans barometric thermo-meters. The distance traversed from Kolobeng was six hundredand three miles, measured by a good trocheameter. Kolo-beng is about five hundred and seventy miles from Coles-berg, or nine hundred from Algoa Bay. Now that weknow the short cuts, we might perhaps make thejourney in five hundred and fi
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the story of his life, with certain correspondence and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished; . ^ worked out by courses anddistances. The height is an approximation only, asascertained by one of Newmans barometric thermo-meters. The distance traversed from Kolobeng was six hundredand three miles, measured by a good trocheameter. Kolo-beng is about five hundred and seventy miles from Coles-berg, or nine hundred from Algoa Bay. Now that weknow the short cuts, we might perhaps make thejourney in five hundred and fifty miles. The direct coursewould be from Kolobeng, but there is no water fora wagon ; men walk it after rains. The Batouani have no communication with thePortuguese. The only other large tribe on the Lake, ofwhich I learnt the name, was the Maclumma, of Damara. Route in 1849
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