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VISIT FROM MATEEBE. 
[1820. 
rains which we experienced in the Mashow 
country must have contributed to this swell. 
None of the persons who attended Beaufort fair 
had been able to recross the river, except the man 
who brought the letter. 
9th. Mateebe and others called in the morning 
to express their satisfaction at our safe arrival. 
One of them said we had been far! far! Mateebe 
appointed noon, or when the sun was in the 
middle of the heavens, to hear the news of the 
journey. No doubt his uncle Munameets had 
given him an account of it immediately on ar- 
riving, but his narrative would chiefly refer to the 
number of animals that were shot or given to us 
by the chiefs. The news of the number of oxen 
given to us by the Tammahas and Mashows, when 
we were travelling up the country, had reached 
Lattakoo long before our return. 
Messrs. Hamilton and Moffat, at the appointed 
hour, accompanied us to the meeting with Ma- 
teebe. We found him and about forty of his 
captains seated in the public enclosure opposite 
to his house, on which occasion I related what- 
ever I thought was likely to interest him. Among 
other things I mentioned that it had turned out 
exactly as he had supposed, that Makkabba, hear- 
ing of our being at Kurreechane, sent us an in- 
vitation to visit him, which we declined, as we 
