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be sent to Lattakoo, requesting that white men may 
be sent to instruct them also. 
The waggons being nearly all ready, I mounted to 
my seat. Mateebe came and leaned with his head on 
the side of the waggon where I sat for several minutes, 
till a person pointed out his danger from the wheel, 
should the oxen move. 
Mateebe, who seemed at first to have a forbidding 
aspect, every hour grew in our estimation, and I felt 
much at parting from him. Not one article had been 
stolen or taken forcibly from any of us, except two 
buttons, for which the culprit was driven out of the 
public square. 
To teach these Matchappees to sit on chairs instead 
of the ground, or to sleep on beds instead of skins, or 
to eat with knives and forks at a table instead of their 
fingers, would be no easy task, but they consider such 
drilling as this to be the chief object of missionaries 
coming among them, not being able to conceive the 
wonderful importance of receiving the knowledge of 
revealed truth, as connected either with their present 
or everlasting interests. 
