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LIFE OF MOROKEY. 
[1820, 
their journey to that country after the corn is 
sown, and do not return till the next seed-time. 
They bring from thence medical preparations for 
obtaining rain, but when they intend to punish a 
nation they bring medicine calculated, as they 
suppose, to produce drought. When they enter 
the Mahhalatseelay country, the inhabitants in- 
quire where they are going ; should they say 
they are come to visit their country, they boil 
corn and place it before them for food. When 
the strangers proceed on their journey, they in- 
form them, that so long as they travel in their 
country they shall be furnished with food- It 
is reported, that their king neither gets old, nor 
dies, and Morokey seemed to believe it. The 
people ride upon elephants ; and Morokey added, 
they climb up their houses as a person would 
ascend a cliff, [which may refer to stairs.] Every 
thing, he said, might be purchased in that 
country. 
He has been in the Matchacha country, and 
went once to a people called the Mahhapee 
Appalla, on purpose to obtain the knowledge of 
rain-making, for which he paid them thirty oxen 
and cows, tenisheep, ten goats, ten wild-beast- 
skin carosses, ten blasbok carosses, ten strings 
of beads, and a large quantity of unstrung beads. 
He never heard of the sea, but he had been at 
the Yellow River, which he called the Liqua or 
Leequa. 
