JUNE.] RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. 255 
A Matchappee, being told that cows, oxen, sheep 
and other animals were made for certain purposes, 
such as to feed and clothe men, was asked for what 
purpose he thought man was made. He answered, 
To go on plundering expeditions against other people. 
According to this doctrine, the chief end of man is to 
fight one with another. 
26th. The people here obtain copper and iron 
from some nation beyond them, but studiously conceal 
from which. It is understood that there are copper 
mountains not very distant from Lattakoo, but it is 
probable that these metals may come from Europe by 
means of the settlements of the Portuguese on the 
Mosambique coast, who trade for slaves with nations 
in the interior, in exchange for these metals, which 
are handed from nation to nation till they reach Latta- 
koo. The people of this city appear to be ingenious, 
from the articles they manufacture from these metals, 
such as axes, adzes, knives, spears, and bodkins from 
iron ; rings for the legs, arms, fingers, and ears, from 
copper; and likewise from the construction of their 
houses, which are far superior to those of the nations 
nearer the colony. Their cloaks are made and sewed 
as well as could be done by Europeans. 
The city is divided into a number of districts, per- 
haps fifty, separated from each other, having each a 
Headman, (or Alderman,) and a place enclosed for 
public resort, where the men spend the greater part 
of the day together, dressing skins, and making knives 
