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DISCOVERY OF A PECULIAR 
[1820. 
to US and said, it was well that we did not go. 
Several of the people brought us milk, others a 
little corn, and Munameet's people some rich 
honey-comb which they had found in the field. 
The King was present at the evening worship. 
19th. A Mashow rain-maker had just returned 
from the Wanketzen country, where he had been 
for some time. While there he saw two expedi- 
tions go out against some neighbouring nations, in 
both of which they were successful in capturing 
cattle. On the first they killed nine men, and on 
the last three. Two messengers had also arrived 
to invite Kossie to join Makkabba on a new expe- 
dition, which he declined. 
During our absence from Mashow two rhinoce- 
roses came into the town during the night, when 
the inhabitants assembled and killed them both. 
The rhinoceroses, shot by Jager, on the preceding 
day, having been cut up, were brought, the one in 
a waggon, the other on pack-oxen. We divided 
one among Kossie, Munameets, and Pelangye. 
They brought also the heaa of one of them, which 
was different from all the others that had been 
killed. The common African rhinoceros has a 
crooked horn resembling a cock's spur, which 
rises about nine or ten inches above the nose and 
inclines backward ; immediately behind this is a 
short thick horn ; but the head they brought had 
