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Show KAFFIR WOMAN WAS BRAVE Armed Only with Hoe, Sho Forced Lioness to Drop Humr.n Prey It Was Carrying Clr. Ono of the first explorers of tho Interior of South Africa was William Cotton Oswell, a noted hunter nnd a friend of Livingstone, to whom ho rendered important aid. In his biography biog-raphy tho following stc-y Is given from ono of his African .otters: "An Incident highly crodltablo to I .JTIr womanhood occurred Just as wa reached Mabotse. Tho vomen as Is their custom, were working In tho fields, for they hop, and tho men sew. A young man, standing by tho edge of tho bush, was chatting with thorn. A lioness sprang on him, and was carrying him off, when ono of the women ran after her, eaiiijM hor by tho tall and was draggod for somo little distance. Hampered by tho man In her mouth and the woman behind her, sho slackened hor pace, whereupon where-upon her assailant straddled over her hack and hit her across tho nose and lual with a heavy short-handled I103 until sho dropped her prjy and slunk to cover." Youth's Companion. |