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RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. [1813. 
the dispositions of children often differed. He said 
the missionaries would be safe, for when two of his 
people murdered John Kok, he brought them to his 
wife to shoot them, that when she would not, he did 
it. We told him that in that case he acted according 
to the directions in our book, which says, " He that 
sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be 
shed. He said, Whenever the missionaries have 
got enough, they shall be at liberty to depart," having 
no idea that they can have any other view of coming 
but gain. He said, " I believe there is a God who 
made all things, who gives prosperity, sickness, and 
death, but I do not know him." The knowledge he 
has, undoubtedly came from the missionary station at 
Klaar Water. About a hundred persons were present^ 
and the conversation lasted two hours. 
In the afternoon a person stated as an objection to 
missionaries coming, " that when praying, they would 
not see the enemy coming upon them" — and another 
said, " they never would be able to sing." 
One of our people overheard Mateebe say to some 
of his people, who were sitting at a fire in our kitchen 
— " These men have been born before us — they know 
more than us — they make us dumb." 
Mateebe mentioned, that when on an expedition along 
with the Wanketzens, Makkabba their chief, and his 
servant appeared at a dance dressed in the clothes of 
