CHAP. XXV. 
RECEPTION FROM THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE- 
DISCOVERY OF A PECULIAR SPECIES OF RHI- 
NOCEROS—CONVERSATION WITH THE KING 
ABOUT RECEIVING A MISSIONARY— ROBBERY 
BY THE WANKETZEN AMBASSADORS. 
We entered Mashow at five p. m. The Hotten- 
tot Jager, having remained behind with some of 
the natives to search for game, arrived a little 
after us, with the pleasing intelligence that he 
had shot two rhinoceroses and wounded two. 
Kossie the king and several of his chief captains 
gave us a friendly reception, as did many of the 
inhabitants, who soon encircled our waggons 
The first inquiry of many of them was, whether 
the Marootzee had given us any oxen for our sup- 
port while at Kurreechane ? When Kossie was 
in the tent in the evening, Pelangye told him that 
Makkabba had sent us an invitation to visit him, 
but that we had not gone : on which he turned 
