May.] 
LIFE OF MOROKEY. 
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Morokey said he had never once thought what 
the sun was, nor where it went at night; but 
he remembered, when he was a boy, the sun 
getting so dark in the daytime that the stars 
appeared, and also the moon becoming very 
-dark. He had heard that God kills men, but 
did not know of their going any where after 
they were dead. He now seriously inquired 
of us what he should daub himself with in 
order to become rich ? In answer, we asked 
him if he really expected to be rich now that he 
was an old man. He said he was not an old 
man, he was but a youth, at any rate there was 
no harm in his getting rich, he could leave it to 
his children— did we ever see old men taking 
such a journey as he was now engaged in, travel- 
ling from Mashow to Lattakoo, or had we seen 
old men hunt like him— he could run for some 
distance as fast as his son, but after that his son 
got before him. These arguments were used to 
persuade us that he was still young, but the next 
question proved, that he both believed and felt 
that he was growing old, for he gravely asked if 
we could inoculate him with any thing that would 
make him young again. 
When inquiring respecting the fate of Cowan, 
Donovan, &c. he said he had never heard of white 
men coming to their countries before. 
