Show KAFFIR WOMAN WAS BRAVE armed oaly with hoe she forced lioness to drop human prey it was carrying off one of the first explorers 0 interior of south africa was william cotton bewell a noted hunter and a friend of to whom he rendered important aid in hie blog raphy the following story Is given from one of hi african letters an incident highly creditable to kaffir womanhood occurred just as we reached manotee the women as Is their custom were working in the held for they hoe and the men sew A young man at anding by the edse of the bush was chatting with them A prang on him and was carrying him off when one of women ran after her caught her by the tall and wag dragged tor bome little distance hampered by the man in her mouth and the woman behind her ehe blackened her pace where upon her assailant straddled over her back and hit her across the nose and head with a heavy short handled hoe until she dropped her prey and slunk to cover youths companion |