JULY.] RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. 
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into a pot to be boiled, either to compleat that repast, 
or to serve for another soon after. One of Mateebe s 
sisters was cutting up a filthy looking piece of flesh, 
and putting it into the same pot. Certainly an 
Englishman would be dying for want of food, before 
he accepted an invitation to dine with the king of 
Lattakoo ; otherwise the sight of his dinner would 
afford more pain than pleasure. These people are 
far from possessing nice stomachs, for they can eat, 
with relish, the flesh of elephants, lions, tygers, camel- 
leopards, quachas. Sec. Yesterday I observed one of 
them kill a goat by thrusting into its belly a long awl, 
which appeared a cruel operation, but it is their 
method. 
At noon we had a public meeting in the square by 
desire of Mateebe, with himself, and as many of his 
chief men as chose to attend. The king was seated 
on one of our stools ; I sat on his right, Mr. Read on 
his left, and Mr. Anderson next. Our two inter- 
preters sat on the ground before us, and the chief 
men and the people sat in half circles beyond them. 
We began by stating the truths which our missionaries 
would teach. Mateebe repeated how little leisure his 
people had to learn. We told him we had daily observed 
many men, women and children doing nothing, and 
that a missionary would have plenty of work to 
teach such. He ej^pressed surprize, that if all men 
came from one father and mother, they so differed 
from one another. We observed that in one family 
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