Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 6 | Kaffir Woman Was Brave

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 wasi 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 1 their custom were working in the fields tor they hoe and the men sew A young man standing by the edge ot the bush was chatting with them A donees deprang on him and was carrying him off when one of the women ran after her caught her by the tall and was dragged for some little distance hampered by the man in her mouth and the woman behind her she slackened 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