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AT NEW LATTAKOO. 
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was a delicate business, for I knew his heart 
was set upon it, and I also knew that the colo- 
nial government at the Cape were very properly 
averse to those beyond the limits possessing 
guns. I told him I had a long journey still 
before me, and these weapons were not only 
necessary for defence, but much more so to 
kill game for our support, and added, that he 
ought not to be surprised if I felt reluctant to 
part with any of them. He was evidently 
disappointed, but seemed to feel some force in 
the reason I assigned. 
In the evening, however, he brought me a 
present of some thick milk, which was no small 
evidence of friendship from so penurious a man. 
A servant had carried it to the door, but he 
himself brought it into the room, and placed it 
before me on the table, seemingly pleased with 
his own generosity. 
We were informed that the king and his cap- 
tains had determined to take signal revenge on 
the Bushmen for their late robberies, by sending 
out a numerous party against them. When the 
Bushmen killed, some time before, a brother of 
Mateebe's, a similar party was sent against them, 
who massacred all of that miserable nation that 
came in their way, men, women, and children, 
to the amount of about two hundred. 
