CHAP. VI. 
SECOND RESIDENCE AT NEW LATTAKOO. 
NEWS RECEIVED FROM THE CAPE -ACCOUNT OF 
OUR JOURNEY GIVEN TO MATEEBE— MOEETE'S 
QUARREL-COMMANDO AGAINST THE BUSHMEN- 
STATE OF THE GARDEN -ACCOUNT OF WINDS- 
FARTHER ACCOUNT OF MOEETE— A NATIVE 
PREACHER— INDUSTRY OF THE FEMALES— TASTE 
FOR EUROPEAN DRESSES— PRESENTS TO MUNA- 
MEET'S DAUGHTERS, &c. 
On reaching Lattakoo, I found a letter from 
Dr. Philip, which had arrived there only an hour, 
and which brought the first intelligence I had re- 
ceived since leaving the Cape five months before. 
It was brought by a Griqua, who had attended 
Beaufort fair, in the colony, and in returning he 
swam with it across the Great River, which had 
been so full for nearly two months as to render it 
impassable by waggons : consequently, if I had 
not gone the Marootzee journey, I should have 
been detained on the north side of the river. The 
