April.] 
OLD LATTAKOO. 
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New Lattakoo, I found he was gone to a distant 
nation, professedly to purchase skins ; but some 
suspected he had other views, which were not so 
innocent. Though he was the eldest son of his 
father, yet he did not succeed him as chief, 
because he had been born previous to the cir- 
cumcision of his father, on which account his 
second son was acknowledged as chief. . 
Cupido, our native Missionary, arrived from 
Malapeetzee to meet me. His waggon appeared 
as ancient as the antediluvian age ; instead of a 
canvass covering, like other waggons, it was 
covered with two ox hides retaining the hair, 
and these were so shrunk by the rain and the 
heat, that a foot on each side was open above 
the timber. He informed me, that the Corannas 
from his station, whom I had seen at New Lat- 
takoo, and engaged to accompany me to the 
Marootzee country, had resolved not to go, 
because I had determined to travel to it by the 
town of Mashow, which they said was so near 
the Wanketzens that they would attack and 
murder us. The Corannas, except when engaged 
in actual war, are considered a timid nation. 
This information made us resolve on travelling to 
Mashow in a more northerly track than by Ma- 
lapeetzee. 
I was very anxious to view the spot where 
