June.] 
LIFE OF MAKOON. 
31 
On the banks of that river he has lived all his 
days. His father's name was Kammaka, and 
his mother s Ab. His father died before he w^as 
born, and a short time afterwards, his mother 
married a Bushman called Takkoo, who is like- 
wise dead. 
His countrymen were much more numerous 
in those parts when he was young, than they are 
now, their numbers having been greatly re- 
duced by the attacks of the Matchappees and 
Corannas. 
The first commando in which he engaged was 
against the Matchappees, in which, though many 
oxen were captured, he had only two for his 
share. He acknowledged, that after the cattle 
had been divided amongst the captors, the whole 
was eaten up in two days. So short lived were 
the fruits of an enterprise, in which the lives of 
all had been exposed to the greatest hazard. 
His second commando was against the Tam- 
mahas ; but these having information of the 
design drove away their cattle, so that his 
party captured nothing ; but Makoon having 
found a woman concealing herself, he put her to 
death. This journey was the farthest to the N. E. 
he had ever been. He went upon a third com- 
mando against Bahharara, another Tammaha 
town, in which they were more successful in 
