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please them with articles in return, then they 
were at liberty to go to other persons. 
While he spoke, though I did not understand 
what he said, I observed something unpleasant 
in the expression of his countenance. I told. 
him our object in coming to Kurreechane was 
not to dispose of beads, but to form a friendly 
connexion with him, and to send the word of 
God to him and to his people ; adding, that 
at any rate our coming to him would open 
the way to the bead country. Munameets then 
made an explanatory speech, in his mild, con- 
ciliating way, which the Regent replied to with- 
out a smile. 
Maketsey, son to the late king Makrakka, who 
travelled with us from Mashow, then spoke. He 
said, that when he was on a visit to his brother 
Malahla, at Old Lattakoo, one of these white men 
was there, who took a fancy to a knife he had, 
but he had no beads with him, but offered to send 
them when he should return to his home in New 
Lattakoo. On this promise he trusted him, and 
a good quantity of beads came to Mashow a short 
time after his arrival there; So," said he, " you 
may trust the word of these men." Liqueling 
smiled, and appeared more satisfied. Pelangye, 
from Old Lattakoo, then said what he could in 
our favour, as did also a young captain of the 
