Excerpt from Oscar in Africa The speaker leaned over the little bar in the hotel at Maritzburg, and looked first at the landlord Who stood behind it and then at half a dozen roughly dressed companions who were congregated in front of it. These men were cattle-dealers and specula tors. They made it a business to furnish oxen, wagons, supplies, and servants to hun ters and travellers I who were bound up the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.