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484: BDSHNELL BUSSY D'AMBOISE Hottentot dialect in its harsh, guttural, and snorting sounds, but the two people do not understand each other. They have no fixed residence, build no dwellings, but live in fumi- Bushmen. lies and roam about, resting under trees, bushes, and other casual shelter, subsisting upon plun- der, eating raw flesh, and when that fails liv- nng on snakes, mice, grubs, and vermin. In drinking they lie down. Their usual clothing is a mere sheepskin, although they wear caps or other garments when they can procure them. They are armed with knives, small hows and poisoned arrows, which they use with dexterity. In their own language they are called Saab or Saan. A small number of them in Cape Col- ony, employed as menials, are comparatively civilized ; hut missionary efforts are not very successful among them, though active espe- cially on the S. E. boundary, where Hottentots live together with Bushmen. Bl'SIIXELL, David, an American inventor, born in Saybrook, Conn., about 1754, died at Warrenton, Ga., in 1824. He graduated at Yale college in 1775, and turned his thoughts toward the invention of a machine for blowing up vessels from under water. He successfully exploded many small models, and made a large machine capable of conveying an operator with 150 Ibs. of powder, which was tried in vain on the Eagle, a British 64-gun ship, lying in the harbor of New York. Bushnell prepared a number of machines in kegs to be floated by the tide upon the British vessels lying in the river at Philadelphia, the result of which at- tempt gave occasion to the ballad of the " Bat- tle of the Kegs," by Francis Hopkinson. He became a captain in the army, and after the close of the war went to France. It was long supposed that he died there, but he returned to America, became principal of several schools in Georgia, and finally a physician at Warren- ton, where he was known as Dr. Bush. BUSHNELL, Horace, D. D., an American cler- gyman, born at New Preston, Conn., in 1802. lie graduated at Yale college in 1827, was teacher in an academy at Norwich, Conn., and in 1829 became tutor in Yale college, also studying law and theology. In 1833 he be- came pastor of the North Congregational church in Hartford. In 1837 he delivered at Yale college the Phi Beta Kappa oration on the " Principles of National Greatness," and in 1847 published " Christian Nurture," in which he discussed the subject of religious education, and treated of the family as a religious insti- tution. In 1849 appeared "God in Christ," three discourses previously delivered, with a preliminary "Dissertation on Language as re- lated to Thought." The views herein expressed respecting the doctrine of the Trinity were questioned, and the author was called upon to answer a charge of heresy before the clerical association of which he was a member. The charge was not sustained. In further expla- nation and defence of his views, he published in 1851 a work entitled "Christ in Theology," in which he argued that systematic orthodoxy is not attainable, and that human language is incapable of expressing with any exactness theologic science. His other principal works are: "Sermons for the New Life" (1858); "Nature and the Supernatural" (1858); "Work and Play" (1864); "Christ and his Salvation" (1864); " The Vicarious Sacrifice " (1865) ; "Moral Uses of Dark Things " (1868) ; and "Women's Suffrage, the Keform against Nature" (1869). He has also published many discourses and addresses, and has been a fre- quent contributor to religious periodicals. BUSSEY, Benjamin, a merchant of Boston, born in Canton, Mass., March 1, 1757, died in Rox- bury, Jan. 13, 1842. At the age of 18 he en- listed as a private in the revolutionary army, and served for three or four years, when he married and began business as a silversmith in Dedham. At the end of the war he removed to Boston, where he engaged in foreign com- merce and acquired a fortune, which he be- queathed to Harvard university, after the de- cease of certain relatives, to be used for the support of the law and divinity schools, and for the establishment of a school for instruction in practical agriculture. For this last purpose he devised a farm of several hundred acres in West Roxbnry, near Boston, where in 1869-'70 the government of the university built a col- lege, and established a school of agriculture and horticulture. The amount of Mr. Bussey's bequest at the time of his death was estimated at $350,000. BUSSY D'AMBOISE, Louis de Clennont de, a French cavalier of the second half of the 16th century. He became prominent during the St. Bartholomew massacre, of which he availed himself to murder his relative Antoine de Cler- mont, with whom he had been in litigation.