294 RESIDENCE AT LATT'AKOO. [1813. 
his orders, however hazardous the service, must be 
obeyed. An instance in proof of this was stated to us* 
John Bloom, a desperado, had put himself at the head 
of a plundering party : when he and his party were in 
the country of the Wanketzens, their chief ordered 
one of his people to go and murder John. The man 
went and murdered another person instead of John 
Bloom, and then fled, but being pursued, he was over- 
taken and put to death. 
The following is an account of the journey of John 
Hendric, a Griquaa^ to the TVanketzens, as he 
related it at Lattakoo. 
His object was to shoot, aud to barter for cattle. 
He came first to Lattakoo, from whence he travelled 
eastward to a people called by the Matchappees, Red 
Caffres, but whose real name is Tamakka. They ap- 
peared to be a mongrel race, between the Matchappees 
and Bushmen, and they paint themselves red. Their 
houses are round and made of reeds, like those of the 
Corannas, but better constructed, and kept cleaner. 
They are not so tall as the people at Lattakoo ; they 
have catde, sheep, and goats, and live together in 
towns, but not so large as those of the Matchappees. 
They sow corn, pumpkins, &c. The first of their 
villages lies four days' journey from Lattakoo, and the 
chief's name is Reebe. 
From thence he went to the city of Moosso, a 
chief of the Morolongs, who is cousin to Makrakka 
