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EXAMINATION OF MULOJA. 
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enclosure, in the same manner as they had been accustomed to do 
since my first arrival at the town ; but we understood that a body of 
armed men had been, without loss of time, sent out to expel the 
invaders from their territory. 
Early in the forenoon, Muloja (Moolowya), the man who had 
been mentioned to me by MattTvi as having been an eye-witness to 
the murder of the former party of travellers under Dr. Cowan and 
Captain Donovan, was brought into the mootsi, for the purpose of 
giving me his evidence relative to that melancholy catastrophe. I 
desired Muchunka to bring him to my waggon, as I could there 
more conveniently write down his answers to my questions ; but 
Mattlvi opposed this mode of examination, as it admitted only of as 
many hearers as the very confined space of my sitting-place could 
accommodate. It soon, however, became apparent that his real 
motive for wishing the man not to be examined in private, was the 
necessity of assisting and directing him in a story fabricated entirely 
to correspond with his views of exciting the resentment of the Cape 
government against his enemies. 
I therefore complied with the Chief's wishes, and took my seat 
in the hut ; one side of which was, on the occasion, thrown open, 
that all our proceedings might be seen and heard by the whole crowd 
of kosies who were then in attendance. I began by putting to 
Muloja such questions as were most likely to produce such informa- 
tion as might convince me that his account was a genuine narrative 
of facts. I put the veracity of his evidence to the test of cross- 
examination ; a test which I soon perceived it was unable to stand. 
I asked the same question at separate times and in different forms, 
but the replies were often contradictory. He rarely gave any answer 
without waiting till MattTvi or some of the chieftains who were 
sitting by him, had put the words into his mouth, or had given him 
a hint of what he was to say. The Nuakketsies, among whom he had 
lived some time as prisoner of war and who had but lately allowed 
him to return to his own country, were the people who, by the 
orders of Mokkaba their chief, had, according to his story, put those 
travellers to death and plundered their waggons. Among many 
