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the story of his life with certain correspondance and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished (1900)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 90
SWELL looks added to the fascination ; he stood six feet high in his stockings when he left school, at eighteen, but did not look his height from the perfection of his figure — broad in shoulders, thin in flank, and so well developed that he was called “ The Muscleman.55 ‘ I will give one instance… … THE PLAYING FIELDS, RUGBY. No record was kept here, but this I saw Oswell do : From a group of boys at a wicket on Little Side ground as it then was, he threw a cricket ball over, as I believe, or at any rate through , the great elms (which were then standing in a close row at right angles to the…
Oswell, William Cotton, 1818-1893
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