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LIFE OF MAKOON. 
[1820 
capturing cattle, yet these also afforded a feast 
for only two days. His fourth commando was 
with a party of Corannas against the Matchap- 
pees, when only one cow came to his share. 
He has to boast of having killed in his lifetime 
four lions, one tiger, two leopards, three came- 
leopards, seven buffaloes, two rhinoceroses, two 
elks, one sea-cow, and numberless quachas. 
Some years ago he had about a hundred people 
in his kraal, but by murders and disease, they are 
now reduced to a small number. He has still a 
few people at three different places, besides his 
own, who acknowledge subjection to him ; all 
these have promised to reside at his kraal should 
a Missionary be sent there, and he has no doubt 
but that he should be joined by Bushmen from 
various parts of the country. 
He said his countrymen knew nothing of 
God, and he knew as little. On being asked 
what the Bushmen thought of God, he seemed 
unwilling to answer, but carelessly observed, 
that Bushmen told lies ; however, on being 
pressed and questioned, he said, they had a 
name which they gave to God who is above 
them, and another to God who is under them. 
The former is a male, the latter a female. The 
male god they call Goha, the female Ko ; and 
