May.] 
LIFE OF MAKKABBA. 
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age, he is upwards of six feet in height, but of a 
slender make, has a prominent chin, with two pro- 
jecting teeth which raise his upper lip, and is 
said never to look a person in the face, to whom 
he is speaking. He has at present about twenty 
wives, all of whom have separate houses, built 
in the form of a circle. He does not usually 
sleep during the day, but when this happens, 
Maketzee asserted that his people were sure 
an army from some nation was marching to 
attack their cattle, and they hasten out of the 
city to defend them. Chooss is his eldest 
and only surviving son, having murdered all the 
others, from a fear, it is supposed, lest they 
should murder him, as he had murdered his father. 
Chooss, when he is "sick, will not take medicine 
from his father, lest poison should have been 
mixed up with it. 
The first commando in which Makkabba en- 
gaged was during the lifetime of his father, 
against the Boquain nation, and he succeeded 
in capturing many of their cattle. On a second 
expedition against the same people he was equally 
successful, and took Seechangway, their king, 
prisoner, whom he soon afterwards liberated. 
On a third attack he slew Seechangway, which 
so enraged the Boquains, that they rallied and 
made a furious attack upon Makkabba, killed 
many of his people, and captured a great number 
their cattle. 
