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FIRST RESIDENCE 
[1820. 
it, and my paying them a visit. The king of 
Mashow looked significantly to Mateebe, wishing 
him first to deliver his opinion, w^ho immediately 
said, 
" I will never hinder the progress of the Word 
of God. I have no objection to your going to 
Mashow, and the other people in that direction,* 
but when you come to Mashow, Makkabba, the 
king of Maleeta,! who lives not far from Mashow, 
hearing you are there, will send for you. He is 
a bad man, I should not like you to go there. 
I know that he would murder you. I told the 
same to Dr. Cowan, but he would not believe 
me, and he has never returned." 
Kossee assented to Mateebe's remarks, and 
added. Should we come to any of those nations, 
we must do nothing with the people alone, but 
every thing through the kings ; we must always 
consult them, and they would advise what was 
* As all European articles ascend to the interior through 
Lattakoo, from which Mateebe and his people derive a profit, 
we were rather surprised that he so readily consented to my 
visiting the natives beyond, with the view of Missionaries being 
afterwards sent to them, which might injure his trade with those 
nations, 
t Maleeta is the name of the city, Wanketzens that of the 
people, • 
