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JOURNEY TO 
[1820. 
Mareesse, son-in-law to Mateebe, came to the 
waggons from attending cattle in the neighbour- 
hood. He belongs to Mahoomoo-Peloo's people 
at Old Lattakoo. When he married Mateebe's 
daughter he was desirous of leaving his former 
connexions, in order to join his father-in-law at 
New Lattakoo ; but Mahoomoo and his captains 
would not consent, threatening to seize his cattle 
if he left them. On Munameets and Mareesse 
meeting in the tent, the former, with much 
gravity, gave a minute detail of all that had taken 
place during the journey, such as, what animals 
had been killed, the devouring of our ox by two 
lions, &c. The other then related his adventures 
in few words. 
Having quitted every beaten path, I found the 
jolting of the waggons so great that it was 
impossible to read. 
Munameets came into the tent at night and 
asked for the interpreter, by whom he told us 
that he was a stranger to the country beyond 
the Tammahas, who were the people we next 
expected to reach. At the time he engaged to go 
with us he undertook to be our guide to the 
Marootzee, the most distant nation we proposed 
to visit. After leaving Lattakoo he informed us 
he did not know the way farther than Mashow, 
the next nation to the Marootzee, and at this 
