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Excerpt from Kings of the Rod, Rifle and Gun, Vol. 2
In India he spent ten years, rising rapidly to the post Of collector and judge. His station was thirty miles from the nearest English doctor, so he added the study Of medicine to his regular work. This was heavy enough, but did not hinder him from joining any young English man who Came to hunt. In one Of these hunts he saved the life Of the then Lord Gifford, shooting a tiger, which his lordship, who was short-sighted, had not noticed, and which was in the act Of springing. On another Of these excursions the party encamped on ground full Of malaria, and were struck with jungle fever, Of which several died. Oswell, thanks to his splendid constitution, struggled through, after being insensible for several days. NO sooner had he recovered consciousness than he set to work on a pile Of his district papers - complaints from villages, reports Of gang-robberies, etc - with a wet towel round his head. He Cleared his table at the cost of a dangerous relapse, the effects Of which he could not shake Off so he was sent to the Cape on sick-leave, those who saw him embark doubting if he would ever reach the Cape alive.
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