June.] 
BURIAL OF A JNATIVE. 
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his grave, they took us to the cattle-kraal, and 
pointed under the hedge on the north end of the 
kraal, part of which we understood they had re- 
moved, and having dug a deep and wide hole, with 
a seat on the south side, the corpse was placed 
upon it, with his face towards the sun at noon. 
The hole was then filled up, the hedge replaced, 
and the earth so carefully spread, that not a 
vestige of what they had done could be ob- 
served, except the freshness or dampness of the 
earth on the surface about that part of the hedge. 
The inhabitants appeared to be in a melancholy 
frame of mind. In number they might amount 
to five or six hundred. The houses are good, 
and Mattabee is acknowledged as their superior 
chief. 
We followed the waggons over a hill, and at 
one p. M. found them unyoked at a consider- 
able town, called Machatchanai, which contains 
about seven or eight hundred inhabitants, and 
is governed by two chiefs, the elder is Mallyan- 
yang, and the younger Clohah. The waggons 
were surrounded by a noisy mob of the natives, 
Mrs. Moffat's dress seemed to attract general 
attention. 
On visiting the senior chief, Mallyanyang, he 
treated us in his yard with some excellent curdled 
milk, and furnished each of us with a neatly- 
