May.] account OF HOONSEY. 
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many contentions among themselves, being di- 
vided into three parties, and each having a parti- 
cular head or leader. These three parties com- 
pletely separated from each other. One joined the 
Matchappees; a second lived independent, but 
under the protection of the late Makrakka; and 
the third remained in the Mashow country. 
The party that joined the Matchappees pre- 
vailed on Mallayabang their king, the father of 
Mateebe, to go on an expedition against the 
others, on which occasion many of the Mashows 
were slain. Mallayabang having ordered his fol- 
lowers that none of the Mashow captains should 
be put to death, if they fell into their hands, his 
father's life was saved, but not till after two ar- 
rows had pierced his body. These being ex- 
tracted he recovered. 
Hoonsey, having also engaged in an expedi- 
tion against one of the other parties, would 
have been killed during the battle, in conse- 
quence of a sore leg which he had at the time, had 
not some of his own people rushed forward and 
protected him. Afterwards he went on a com- 
mando against the Sillootarn, a people living on 
the banks of the river Liqua, (or Yellow River,) in 
which they killed their King Sillootarn, and cap- 
tured many of their cattle. In another expedi- 
tion he accompanied the Moquains against the 
