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DRESS OF THE REGENT. 
[1820, 
was the Boquain nation who had lately stolen 
some of their cattle, and insisted that a com- 
mando should be sent against them; on saying 
this, he pointed his assagai to the north, the direc- 
tion in which the Boquains lived, as if in the act 
of throwing it towards them. The meeting testi- 
fied its approbation, according to the custom of 
the people, by whistling. He spoke favorably of 
the visit from the strangers. 
Moeelway was then called upon to dance be- 
fore them, that they might have an opportunity 
of cheering him. He is a fine-looking young man, 
about six feet high. He wore the red night- 
cap I had given him, tied round with gilt tinsel 
lace, which looked extremely well amid so motley 
a group. The Regent wore, as a breast-plate, 
a very large lackered bed-nail cover, which 
I had sent him in the morning, with some other 
things, in consequence of his sending me a second 
elephant's tusk. He wore, sometimes before and 
sometimes behind, one of the handsomest tiger- 
skins I had seen, and was loaded with beads. As 
Moeelway was returning to his seat from the 
dance, he was excessively applauded by all, 
beating their shields and shaking their assagais, 
accompanied with as much noise as they could 
make with their tongues. I should not wonder 
if Moeelway's popularity excited suspicions in 
the mind of the Regent, lest by and by he might 
