74 CONVERSATION WITH MATEEBE AND [1820. 
The Missionaries say they could get plenty of 
young people to attend, were they either to 
feed them, or daily to make them presents of 
beads. The children coming to school, and the 
old people to worship, is considered by the natives 
as a favour done to the Missionaries. So gene- 
rally is this the case, that when the Missionaries 
observe a captain attending regularly for a short 
time, who has not been accustomed to attend 
before, they expect an application from him soon, 
for the use of their waggon, or their plough, or 
something else. When they have the use of the 
waggon, they must also have the loan of oxen 
to drag it ; for, though they have plenty of oxen, 
they are too tender of them to allow any to be 
trained for the yoke. In the present state of 
things, it is generally prudent to comply with 
their request. 
I next expressed to Mateebe the satisfaction 
I felt in hearing that he and his people had re- 
linquished the system of going on commandoes* 
against their neighbours, to capture their cattle. 
He said, that as he had taken Qur advice,; 
in not going on commandoes, he hoped I would 
take his advice by not going to people whom he. 
did not like, such as Makkabba, king of the 
* Marauding expeditions against their neighbours. 
