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pointing to many beads on his arms, he said he 
got them by means of a servant whom he sent to 
the Boquains with an elephant's tooth. Those 
who bring them say they are two years on the 
journey ; no doubt having a selfish object in view 
by saying so. The Molloquam use only bows 
and arrows in war. They rub the tusks of the 
elephant over with what they call medicine, which 
they say makes them lighter and more portable 
for their servants. They likewise say that they 
purchase the tusks to eat ; evidently with the 
intention of preventing the inhabitants of the in- 
terior parts of the country from carrying the ivory 
past them, in hopes of getting a better price for it. 
I assured him, if he could catch a young ele- 
phant and rear it up, it would become as tame as 
an ox, and carry heavy burdens. On which he 
said, that a short time before a young elephant 
came into the town, but they had killed it. 
He said he had been as far to the eastward as 
to a country called Matchaquam : that he reached 
it on the eighth day, after leaving Kurreechane. 
He slept in six different towns on the road, and 
the seventh night in the open air. Their houses, 
dress and fields were similar to those of the Ma- 
rootzee. He added, that a rain-maker had told 
him of a people to the east, who were very beau- 
tiful, and who live on the side of the Great Water, 
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