Mat.] the CORANNAS JUSTIFICATION. 
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Agreeably to the promise which we made to 
the King of the Tammahas, we held a meeting 
with the chief men on the subject of their murder 
of his brother, and the taking of seven oxen ; they 
gave the following statement of that affair :— 
They said that two Tammaha captains with 
their servants came to trade with them at 
Malapeetzee. Their captain lodged one of the 
Tammaha captains, and a person present lodged 
the other. Each of them was presented with an 
ox for the support of themselves and servants 
while they remained. Presents of some sheep 
and beads were also made to them. The 
morning they left Malapeetzee, they went into 
one of the cattle-kraals and stole an ox with 
which they went off. On the ox being missed, they 
were pursued and overtaken. In the scuffle that 
ensued, the King's brother was killed, and the 
Tammaha oxen taken as well as the one they had 
stolen. When the captured oxen were brought 
to Malapeetze, the captain gave two of them 
to the man whose ox they had stolen ; and 
not knowing what to do with the others, he 
kept one himself, instead of that which he had 
given to the Tammahas as a present, and gave 
the rest to some of the people. 
After giving this account of the affair, they said 
if the Tammahas would send some of their people 
