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FONDNESS OF THE NATIVES 
[1820- 
I took this opportunity of telling him that God 
alone could send them rain, and that the persons 
among the Bootshuanas and Barroolongs, called 
rain-makers, had no such power over the clouds. 
The conversation afterwards proceeded as follows, 
" Does the King know any thing of the devil 
*' Yes, we call him Burrimo! but we- think he is 
a God." Here Munameets told the King that the 
white people called him Satan ; that he was a 
rogue, and like Makkabba, was constantly trying- 
to stir up all men against God and each other. 
*' Have they ever heard of the Ocean, or Great 
Water ?" The King, smiling, said, " Where shall 
I see such a Great Water ?" He then inquired 
from whence beads came. On being asked how 
the fowls were upheld in the air, he said, he did 
not know whether by air or not. He wished to 
know where we got our clothes, and from what 
they were made. Mooshene then asked for a 
knife; and the King said we must shoot flesh 
for them ; which was heartily seconded by Pe- 
langye, who urged the King to persevere in that 
request, which he evidently did from the hope 
of coming in for a share of whatever might be 
thus obtained. Sedras, the Bootshuana inter- 
preter at this time, told the king and twenty 
others who were sitting in the tent, that though 
Pelangye had travelled with us all the journey up 
the country, and had heard the word of God every 
