June.] DESCRIPTION OF HAMAPERY. 69 
18th. Daylight discovered that Hamapery 
was a very small place, containing not above 
thirty houses. Part of the inhabitants were 
absent. They had some earthern pots and 
goblets as well formed as the cast-iron ones in 
England, and some deep dishes made also from 
clay. They used likewise excavated vessels of 
wood of various sizes. Most of the inhabitants 
attended worship in the morning. Their houses 
were built in the same form as those at Lattakoo, 
and they acknowledge Mateebe as their head, or 
superior. The town is pleasantly situated be- 
tween the Krooman, on the north, and the end 
of a hill on the south. 
We left Hamapery at eleven p. ivi., travelling to 
the westward on the left bank of the Krooman. 
The day was fine and the scenery beautiful. 
Those spaces which were not occupied by mimosa 
trees, or tall bushes, were decked with gTass> 
and closely studded with innumerable large field- 
daises of white, yellow and lilac colours. Some- 
times we passed fine meadow ground, rendered 
almost marshy by the water of the Krooman, but 
Avhich, with a little labour, might produce a great 
abundance of corn. A boy of our company killed 
a wild cat of a drab colour, and in form exactly 
resembling a tame one. 
At noon we passed a village of some poor 
