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ACCOUNT OF HOONSEY. 
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town, but were equally unsuccessful, being beaten 
off from thence with loss ; however, at that time 
Hoonsey killed three men, and consequently 
reaped much honor. Afterwards Sateebe, a 
neighbouring king, invited the Mashows to join 
him in an attack against the same town, which 
they did ; but the inhabitants sallied out and de- 
feated them. In this contest Matchakoo, uncle 
to Kossie the present King of the Mashows, was 
killed. Hoonsey said that that was the last com- 
mando he had been engaged in. 
After I had committed to writing an account of 
his first commando, I asked if he had been in 
any other? Laughing, he said he had been on 
commandoes all his life. 
Having finished the narrative of his life, I 
asked him where the Mashows thought men came 
from at first ? He assured me that there was a 
hole in a mountain in the Marootzee country, to 
which we were travelling, from whence all men 
came, and travellers might still see the footmarks 
of men who had come from it ; they can also see 
near it the traces of all kinds of animals who had 
come out of the same hole. There are likewise 
the footmarks of one that went back to the hole, 
and these are God's footmarks. 
I asked him why the Mashows circumcised 
