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