CHAP. VII. 
CONVERSATION WITH MATEEBE AND HIS CAPTAINS 
AT LATTAKOO. 
I HAD a formal meeting with Mateebe and his 
chief captains, in front of his house, within the 
yard. The king sat on the ground, I sat upon 
his right hand upon a large wooden dish inverted, 
Mahootoo, his queen, sat on the ground, at my 
right, Mateebe's eldest son, Peekloo, sat on his 
right hand. The king s uncle, brothers, &c. sat 
near us. 
I began the conversation by observing, that I 
had fulfilled my promise to the king, when for- 
merly at Lattakoo, viz. to get instructors to come 
to his country ; and that the king had fulfilled 
his promise in giving them a kind reception, and 
aiFording them protection. He said he had 
attended to them. On my expressing sorrow at 
finding so few children frequented the school, he 
said *' they had to attend the cattle." 
