June.] MATEEBE'S RETURN. 
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sufficiently punished by being reduced to a state 
of poverty. It seemed that when Moeete com- 
mitted the crime against Brumella's wife, by beat- 
ing her and tearing her cloak, his cattle were 
seized, which brought him to Mateebe, when he 
was fined an ox, and had his cattle restored. He 
felt so hurt at this, that he afterwards fled with 
all his cattle to a town lower down the Krooman. 
To bring him from thence was the object of the 
present commando. 
Mateebe was at the morning worship, having 
returned the evening before. After it was over 
he informed us the man would not come, but they 
were bringing his cattle; one of Mateebe's 
servants, however, whispered to us that they 
had only sent a party to search for the cattle, 
and he doubted if they would be able to find 
them. 
Teiso, a captain, whose young wife the runa- 
way captain had carried off some years ago, 
charged Mateebe, on the outside of the place of 
worship, with not having accomplished any thing 
by his commando, since he had not brought the of- 
fender ! In answer, Mateebe asked Teiso why he 
had not accompanied them on the expedition ? 
For some time the two seemed to be scolding 
each other ; but I found on inquiry, they were 
only discussing what would have been best to 
