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the story of his life with certain correspondance and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished (1900)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 177
AFRICA: SECOND EXPEDITION though the common white rhinoceros is there found in abundance, caused us to change our opinion and to con¬ sider it as certainly a distinct species.’* During this expedition Oswell had two terrible ex¬ periences with rhinoceros. That neither proved fatal is little less… … Length, 32 Inches. perfectly motionless within a few feet of the brute whilst its master fired. Returning to camp one evening on Stael, he fired both barrels at a white rhinoceros. Instead of dropping or bolting, it began to walk towards the smoke. He turned his horse only to find a thick bush was…
Oswell, William Cotton, 1818-1893
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