62 MODE OF PURIFICATION. [1820. 
have done according to the circumstances of the 
case. Mateebe generally appearsa simple, easy 
man, but when speaking with warmth he assumes 
a very different aspect, his eye becomes keen, 
piercing, and sparkling, and his countenance 
fierce. I observed that Teiso could not look him 
in the face when he replied, but looked at some 
other person, or towards the heavens; though 
Mateebe alwa^'^s looked at him while speaking, 
and the motion of his arms corresponded with the 
tone of his voice. 
A chief that resided lower down the Krooman, 
and who came up with Mateebe, called in the 
forenoon ; he said that Mateebe would have put 
Moeete to death when he found him, if he and 
some others had not interfered to prevent it. 
Munameets appeared with his head shaved, which 
is a part of their custom of purification after a 
journey, that all the evil they may have con- 
tracted from the witchcraft or sorcery of strangers 
may be removed. 
Jan Goeyman, a native teacher, gave the 
address at morning worship, the greater part of 
which I understood; it was from Mark xvi. 15, 
16. The address appeared simple and scrip- 
tural, and was delivered with seriousness and 
deliberation. They did not appear to be random 
thoughts, but the result of previous thinking. 
