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LIFE OF MOROKEY. 
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their young people? He said we should not 
ask that question, for they did not like to tell. I 
supposed that Munameets had desired him to 
give that answer. 
LIFE OF MOROKEY, 
A Mashow Rain-maker, who travelled tenth m from 
Mashow to Lattakoo. 
MOROKEY, uncle to Pelangye, the Matchap- 
pee captain, of Old Lattakoo, was born at the river 
Masseree, when the city of Mashow stood there, 
and he continued to reside there till he became a 
man. Commandoes, or plundering expeditions, 
being the greatest events which happen in the in- 
terior countries of Africa, they are generally the 
first things noticed in the life of a South African ; 
of course, in relating his life, he began by telling 
us that the first commando in which he had been 
engaged was against the Marootzee nation, and 
the only memorable circumstance that he could 
recollect was, that, on that commando, he had 
the honor of killing a man. The second com- 
mando in which he was engaged was against the 
Mooroomassanye nation, when the same memo- 
rable event took place— -he again killed a man, 
and consequently obtained the honor of an ad- 
