TRANSACTIONS 
[1820. 
salutation of the natives is " Good day," or " Good 
night," in the Dutch language, which they have 
learned from the Missionaries, and many of them 
shake hands. Very young children are still 
afraid at the sight of white people. A little boy 
about five years of age, happening suddenly to 
turn round, and observing me behind him, 
screamed and fled in the utmost consternation till 
he got under his father's cloak. Peeping out 
while I was yet near, he almost went into convul- 
sions from terror. During our stay at Lattakoo 
the excess of this feeling began, in some instances, 
to subside. Shortly after, a boy, about the same 
age, came up as bold as a lion, and took me by 
the hand ; but young as he was, he walked off 
evidently proud of having performed so heroic 
an action. A person not painted red generally 
appears frightful to them. 
9th. Mahootoo, the queen, examining the 
cotton dress of Mrs. H. a short time after her 
arrival at the station, was asked her opinion of 
it. She said it was not the skin of an animal, 
but must have come from the Great Water. That 
the stuff of which it was composed grew on a 
bush she could not credit; but when Mr. H. told 
her his woolen jacket grew on a sheep, she exa- 
mined it, and said she could believe that, but 
not the other. However much they wonder at 
the dress of Europeans, they seem to possess no 
