William Cotton Oswell, hunter and explorer : the story of his life with certain correspondance and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished (1900)
Oswell, William Edward, Livingstone, David, 1813-1873, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : W. Heinemann · leaf 124
which abounds in this river is the mahseer , something like the salmon, growing to an enormous size. Lord Ellenborough has, I am happy to say, after proclamationizing without end, seen fit to stop those precious Somnauth Gates short of their intended destina¬ tion. Someone has, I suppose, at last… … bears are skeary animals, as stirred up with a stick the Pathfinder says, and I was through the chinks of not above two yards from him, THE ST0NES* and in the mouth of his den. I was obliged actually to have him stirred up with a stick through the chinks of the stones, and the amusing part of the…
Oswell, William Cotton, 1818-1893
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