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runs into a great water that would frighten you 
to look at. Its course is toward the rising sun.' 
Probably the river runs into a frith or bay which 
ends in the sea. 
The beads are brought first to a nation called 
Maklak, by a people whose language he could 
not understand, the beads are not in rows, [or 
strung] but loose, and are exchanged for elephants' 
teeth. When they arrive at a town with their 
oxen and beads, they halt at the outside, and 
enter the town on foot to transact their business. 
All the nations beyond the Marootzee, are similar 
to them in their manners, customs, and method 
of building houses. Their large towns are hardly 
ever more than a day's journey from each other, 
so that there is no occasion to sleep in the fields. 
He visited the Bahatchoo last year. He lives at 
present in the city of Mashow with many of his 
people, over whom he is captain, and travelled 
with us from Mashow to Kurreechane. He was 
the most industrious native in our company, 
being always employed in making and carving 
Avooden spoons, and during our residence at 
Kurreechane he constantly assisted the captain, 
with whom he lodged, in making skin cloaks. 
The voracity of his appetite for flesh, however, 
was nearly equal to that of Pelangye's. 
