Show I KAFFIR WOMAN WAS BRAVE Armed Only with Hoe She Forced Lioness to Drop Human Prey It Was Carrying Off One of the first explorers of the Interior of South Africa was William Cotton Oswell a noted hunter and a friend of Livingstone to whom he rendered Important aid In his biography biog-raphy the following story Is given from ono of his African letters An Incident highly creditable to Kaffir womanhood occurred Just as we reached Mabotse Tho women as Is their custom were working In the fields for they hoe and the men sew A young man standing by the edge of the bush was chatting with them A lioness sprang on him and was carrying him off when ono of the women ran attar her caught her by the tall and was dragged for some little distance Hampered by tho man In her mouth and the woman behind her she slackened her pace whereupon where-upon her assailant straddled over her back and hit her across the nose and head with a heavy shorthandled hoe until she dropped her prey and slunk to cover Youths Companion |