May.] 
FOR ANIMAL FLESH. 
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day; yet here he had interrupted the conver- 
sation by talking about flesh : adding that he was 
a man who was never happy but when he saw a 
potful of flesh boiling before him. 
■ Notwithstanding this reproof, the conversation 
about flesh became general and loud, being a topic 
which touched the strings of every heart. Muna- 
meets Avhispered that the Mashows had taken 
away all his flesh ; he evidently said so, to 
prevent our promising any to the Tammaha. The 
fact was, he had given part of it to his relatives at 
Mashow, and the rest he had bartered away in 
trade, though it was the portion of flesh which 
we had given him to support himself and his 
servants during the rest of the journey, there 
being little reason for expecting to shoot more. 
But these people have as little foresight as chil- 
dren, they sell or eat what they have to-day, 
without ever thinking what is to support them on 
the morrow. 
Mahalalewhey sent in the evening to know 
when worship would commence ; on hearing 
that it was to begin immediately, he called out to 
the people, who were dancing, singing, and clap- 
ping their hands, ikkakoo, which vras our ordinary 
word for assembling the people. This he uttered 
with an audible voice about a dozen times, in 
different parts of the town. The result was that 
