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Livingstone always insisted on associating Oswell's 

 name with his own as joint-discoverer of the Zambesi, 

 and his admiration for his friend's prowess as a hunter 

 is shown in the following passage: 



" Some mistake had happened in the arrangement 

 with Mr. Oswell, for we met him on the Zouga on our 

 return, and he devoted the rest of this season to elephant 

 hunting, at which the natives universally declare he 

 is the greatest adept that ever came into the country. 

 He hunted without dogs. It is remarkable that this 

 lordly animal is so harassed by the presence of a few 

 yelping curs as to be quite incapable of attending to 

 man. He makes awkward attempts to crush them by 

 falling on his knees ; and sometimes places his fore- 

 head against a tree ten inches in diameter ; glancing 

 on one side of the tree and then on the other, as if he 

 thought thereby to catch his enemies. The only danger 

 the huntsman has to apprehend is the dogs running 

 towards him, and thereby leading the elephant to their 

 master. Mr. Oswell has been known to kill four large 

 old male elephants a day. The value of the ivory in 

 these cases would be one hundred guineas. We had 

 reason to be proud of his success, for the inhabitants 

 conceived from it a very high idea of English courage 

 and when they wished to flatter me would say, ' If you, 

 were not a missionary you would be just like Oswell ; 

 you would not hunt with dogs either.' When in 1852 

 we came to the Cape, my black coat eleven years out of 

 fashion, and without a penny of salary to draw, we 

 found that Mr. Oswell had most generously ordered 

 an outfit for the half-naked children, which cost about 



