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the story of his life with certain correspondance and extracts from the private journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished (1900)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 156
wore a real beaver hat, black in winter, white in summer. In his younger days he had been a good cricketer and rider and a capital whip. Notwithstanding his deafness, he was most genial and hospitable, and enjoyed entertaining and seeing his friends. During the long summer sojourn the carriage took… … He was a sober, old- BENJAMIN COTTON. fashioned Churchman, and it was wonderfully impressive to hear him read prayers in his own house, or to see him following in his big Prayer Book every word of the service in church, most reverently thundering out the responses, and the alternate verses of the…
Oswell, William Cotton, 1818-1893
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