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RESIDENCE AT LATTAKOO. [i813. 
Chief exercises more authority than any other of the 
Bootchuanas, and his commands are implicitly obeyed. 
John Hendric returned in a westerly direction by 
the town of Makrakka and the river Moloppo, from 
whence he reached Klaar Water, where he soon 
after learned that Makkabba had a design to murder 
him and his companions, and would accomplish it if 
he ever returned. 
