92 VARIOUS OCCURRENCES DURING [1820. 
Several people were employed in cutting hides 
into ropes for binding parcels on their pack- 
oxen, and one man was busy making a leather 
cap. Some of the children were extremely terri- 
fied by our appearance, especially a boy about 
seven years of age, who made his escape by 
thrusting himself through a thorn hedge, though 
his skin was his only covering. On leaving them 
Malawoo, with about twenty of his men, walked 
with us as far as the houses extended, and many of 
the women followed them. There they remained 
till we were out of sight, which we considered a 
token of their friendship. 
Three other villages or districts of Lattakoo 
are situated a little to the N.E. and all at a consi- 
derable distance from the river. On observing 
this I was informed that the Bootshuanas esteemed 
it unhealthy to reside near a river, which accounts 
for the Lattakoo I formerly visited having been 
two miles from the river of that name. 
2nd. About ten p. m. we set off to view a great 
cave, at the end of Reyner Mountain, about three 
miles to the south of the town. The following 
persons voluntarily accompanied us : 
MoosicaPeekloo, the young king, byMahootoo. 
Yankey, the king's second son, by the old queen. 
