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[1820. 
will say so to the King in common conversation, 
without giving him the smallest umbrage. 
In Mr. Hamilton's garden, there was a cotton- 
bush in flower ; the leaves resembled the currant- 
bush, and the flower that of the hollyhock— -they 
were of three colours in the same bush, some pure 
white, others pale yellow, while others were lilac. 
From the seed of that bush it is intended to plant 
others. Therm, at noon 76. 
The rains at Lattakoo most frequently came 
from the N.W. and the W., which is in the direc- 
tion of the Great Desert ; and sometimes a little 
drizzling rain from the south. None ever comes 
from the east ; it is very diflerent in the vicinity 
of Algoa-bay, where the greatest part of their rain 
is from that quarter. 
Mateebe, Malalla, and four of the principal 
captains, called this day while I was writing, the 
operation of which they seemed to witness with 
considerable interest. I learned from them that 
Kossie, the king of Mashow, had left Lattakoo two 
days before. They seemed to have no idea of 
taking leave. 
In the afternoon, Mateebe brought two oxen to 
purcliase a musket for one of his brothers, as he 
had observed that we possessed several. This 
