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LIFE OF MAKKABBA. 
[1820. 
Makkabba wears on his breast the os humeri, 
or bone of a king's arm whom he had slain, round 
which he has tied the hair of a knoo, that had 
been killed by a lion. When he feels fatigued 
on a commando, he dips the knoo's hair in 
water, which, hanging wet on his breast, he says, 
revives his spirits, and enables him to proceed 
with vigor. 
Maketzee said his commandoes had been so 
numerous that they could not be told. In one of 
them he killed Weekanye, a great captain of the 
Marootzee. He once drove away his uncle from 
Kanye, where he lived, and murdered his children 
by magic. He is very arbitrary. When people 
from a distance bring articles to exchange, he 
takes the whole, and will not permit his people 
to obtain any thing; which is worse than the 
King of Kurreechane, who only requires of 
strangers to make him the first offer of the ar- 
ticles they bring to exchange, and if they are not 
satisfied with his offer, they are at liberty to 
barter with any of his people. This tyrant of 
South Africa frequently puts to death his own 
servants, when they do any thing that displeases 
him. 
He and his people possess cattle in abund- 
ance, which the inhabitants of Lattakoo account 
for in a way satisfactory to themselves. There 
