April.] 
OLD LATTAKOO. 
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In conversation we learned that our guide, 
Munameets, had never been in the chief town of 
the Marootzee, but had once been on an expe- 
dition against a people beyond it. On crossing 
the Marootzee country his party fell in with a 
considerable number of natives hunting, when, he 
said, he never saw so many people together in 
his life. Therm, at noon 78. 
Departed at two p.m., and travelled until six 
P.M., when we halted near water, in the middle 
of a thicket of small mimosa trees, which pro- 
tected us from the cool air of the night. Muna- 
meets had never rode in a waggon before, nor 
would he have now ventured to do so, he said, if 
he had not been ill. By clinging too fast to his 
seat, and not yielding to the motion of the wag- 
gon, he was dashed against the sides, or struck 
the roof, every time the wheels were impeded by 
large stones. 
The Bootshuanas sleep little on journeys, pre- 
ferring to converse around a fire, telling what 
they call news, or rather repeating stories, which 
all of them have heard perhaps fifty times over. 
There is a large, flat fly, called the dog-fly, but 
it might with more propriety be called the dog 
tormentor, which greatly abounds in this quarter. 
These flies bury themselves under the hair of the 
