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LIFE OF MAKETZEE. 
[1820. 
happens to approach that plant, he is unable to 
move from the spot, and is easily killed. When 
a great king is killed, he cuts open the breast, 
and extracts the fat from the entrails, and after- 
wards the marrow from the back-bone, which he 
boils together, and when sick, by putting a little 
of it into his nose and ear, he is cured. He must 
acknowledge him to be a great and wonderful 
man; in some respects a man, but in others a God. 
He eats from morning to evening, and is generally 
surrounded by several of his wives, with only one 
servant present, while all his people must keep at 
a respectful distance. " He will have spies upon 
you," continued the narrator, " in the Marootzee 
country, and wherever you go, to inform him of 
every thing that is done. He lately attacked 
the Maleete, a people lying to the eastward of 
the Marootzee, and took many of their cattle." 
Maketzee here stated that the nations beyond 
the Maleete are the Bopoola, Bopooana, Bapiri, 
a second Bapiri, Bohadpoo, Moolehey, Mat- 
chakwa, Morrimussanee, Bahatchoo, Bapoogey, 
Bapo, Bakohey, Maheheroo, Bopereess, Mo- 
chacha, Omaribai, Selutana, Makotee-Sebatya. 
The country inhabited by these different tribes 
he described as lying to the east and north-east 
of Kurreechane, adding that, " when you come 
to the Bahatchoo there is a great river so broad 
that you can scarcely see to the other side. It 
