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CHAP. XXII. 
PEETSO, OR GENERAL MEETING OF THE CAPTAINS 
AT KURREECHANE. 
May 10. 
In the course of my walk, during the morning, 
I met a party of armed men marching to the 
outer districts of the town to summon the cap- 
tains to the peetso, and in one of the streets I 
passed Moeelway with ten or twelve men, paint- 
ing each other's bodies with wet pipe-clay of a 
French grey colour. 
About eleven a.m. companies of twenty or 
thirty men began to arrive in the public inclosure 
where the waggons stood, marching two and two 
as regularly as any trained regiment. Most of 
them were armed with four assagais or spears, 
and had also battle-axes, and shields made of the 
hide of an ox. On entering the gate they im- 
