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Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
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ngs.Only one man ever de-ceived them; and as Ibelieved that he wasafflicted Avith greedinessto a slight degree ofinsanity, I upheld thehonour of the Englishname by paying hisdebts. Before Gummingleft Africa he met, atGolesberg and other EOUALEYN GEOliG-ii GUKDOX CUM3IING places, with Mr. WilliamGotten Oswell and Mr.Mungo Murray, names before long—like thoseof Mr. Webb (p. 210) and Golonel Steele,two other South African sportsmen of aboutthe same period—to be linked with that ofLivingstone in the exploration of SouthAfrica. Like Major Yardon, whoalso had (in 1848) visited the °Say?*^Limpopo, these sportsmen hadmade their head-quarters at the missionstations in the game country. Mr. Oswell(Vol. II., p. 225) had entered the MadrasGivii Service early in life, but his healthfailing, he was, like so many others in likecase, ordered to the Gape of Good Hope torecruit. This he did to such good purposethat he lived to the age of seventy-five, oneof the halest of English country gentlemen.
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54 GORDON CUMMINGS ADVENTURE WITH THE HIPPOPOTAMUS (p. 206). 210 THE STORY OF AFRICA. He spent the best part of live years in Africa, huntinsr over tracts now the site offarms and towns, but at that time a haunt of wild beasts. When Livingstone determined to cross the Kalahari, until then supposed to be impassable (Vol. II,, p. 183), Oswelland Murray returned from England in ordert o accompany him. They therefore deserved, and have always obtained, part of the credit due for the discovery of Lake Ngami, though, indeed, as nearly every traveller in Bechuanaland had for nearly half a century

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