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TRANSACTIONS 
[1820. 
Mimameets, the king's uncle, consented to ac- 
company me to the Mashow and Marootzee coun- 
tries. I purchased to-day, for eight buttons, a pot 
formed from a soft green stone, pounded into 
powder and made into clay. In making this 
vessel they begin with shaping the mouth, to 
which they add about an inch when it is dried, 
and when that is dried and hardened in the sun 
they add another, and another, till the vessel be 
completed. They then fill and surround it with 
dry cow-dung, to which they set fire; by this 
means it is rendered sufficiently hard for every 
purpose. It was as well shaped as any cast-iron 
pot.* 
8th. The young men informed us, in the morn- 
ing, of a dance they were to have before Mateebe's 
house in the afternoon, to commemorate our 
arrival at Lattakoo. Therm. 78. 
The dance began about four p.m. We looked 
at them for a short time. About twelve women 
stood in a row under the mimosa-tree, clapping 
their hands and singing, or rather screaming to 
time. About the same number of men were 
dancing in two rows before them, making slow 
antic motions with their hands, and each assum- 
* This pot was unfortunately broken to pieces on the 
journey to the Cape. 
