March.] AT LATTAKOO. 
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it difficult for young men to obtain wives. Hence 
many females are betrothed while they are infants, 
that they may be secured as wives when they 
become of age. 
I made also a present to Kossee, the king 
of Mashow, a nation living at a considerable 
distance to the N.E. of Lattakoo. He is young 
and short of stature, but possesses a mild and 
interesting countenance. 
Old and New Lattakoo are about fifty mile& 
distant from each other, and contain nearly the 
same number of inhabitants, perhaps four thou- 
sand each. The houses and cattle kraals are of the 
same form, and their arrangement similar. 
In the afternoon I visited Munameets, another 
uncle of Mateebe, who acted a friendly part to 
me on my former visit. He was sick and lying 
upon the hairy side of a skin caross, within the 
yard at the front of his house. He first stretched 
out his hand to me, and then sat up ; he said, 
though he was better than he had been, yet 
he was still sick. 
On opening the parcel containing my presents 
he immediately put on the red night-cap, and 
took from the snuff-box a large pinch of snutF. 
After examining every article minutely and si- 
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