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RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. 
We employed the forenoon in visiting the districts 
in the S.W. corner of the city, when \ve conversed a 
little with the Headmen and others in each district. 
We observed one man shaping a cloak from a large 
skin, which he did very expertly. On our return we 
saw a child, about eight years old, standing in the 
middle of the street weeping, and, being almost a 
skeleton, it attracted our attention. We enquired 
respecting its disease, when the women told us, the 
child was well enough, that want of food had brought 
it into that state— that the father and mother were 
poor — that he had gone away with another woman, and 
was hunting in the south — that the mother was gone 
to the westward, searching for food. Neither the 
men, women nor children present seemed by their 
countenances to express the least sympathy or feel- 
ing for this forsaken, starving child. They said, 
laughing, that we might take the child with us if we 
pleased. This reminded me of what the Scripture 
says of the dark places of the earth, that they are the 
habitations of cruelty. I was certain that the sight of 
this little girl in the streets of London would have 
excited pity in the hearts of thousands. We took the 
child to our waggons, desiring the people to inform its 
mother, when she returned, where she might find her. 
When some meat was given to the child, she devoured 
it with the voracity of a tyger. Thermometer at 
noon, 67. 
At two P.M. the bustle commenced in the square, 
by the dancing of the girls, who had made some 
