CHAP. XIX. 
MATEERE'S EXPEDITION— NEWS OF THE KING'S AP- 
PROACH—HIS ARRIVAL— LIST OF MATCHAPPEE KINGS, 
&c.— FIRST INTERVIEW WITH THE KING— HE ASKS FOR 
A GUN— DINING OF THE ROYAL FAMILY— PUBLIC MEET- 
ING WITH THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE— A FROLIC- 
KING'S ACCOUNT OF COWAN'S MURDER. 
Mateere with two others paid us a visit in our 
tent in the evening. They related an expedition for 
steahng cattle, in which they were engaged some time 
ago, which lasted ten months. They travelled N.W. 
and then direct to E. till they came to a large 
water, which probably was the Indian ocean; but 
what astonished us was, their relating it as if it were 
a fortunate and commendable enterprise, that they 
came to a people who had no instruments of defence, 
killed many of them, and carried off a great many 
cattle. On which Mr. Anderson remarked, that the 
more people any of these men kill, the higher it raises 
their character ; and to murder one white man gains 
more fame than murdering two black, and he had no 
doubt but the murder of poor Cowan and Denovan, 
with their party, had added greatly to the renown of 
