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DESCRIPTION OF LINTUA. 
[1820. 
not by the inhabitants of neighbouring towns 
going on commandoes against the place where 
the robbers and murderers lived, and killing 
whomsoever they found, for then the innocent 
suffered as well as the guilty, and sometimes 
only the innocent, the guilty escaping, but that 
the captain or chief of the town should punish 
them himself. Here Munameets said, that " the 
captains on the Krooman were no captains, they 
did not punish. Kossie, the King of Mashow," 
said he, " is but a boy, yet he keeps his people 
in order ; when any of them do wrong, he pu- 
nishes them directly." 
During this conference Lintua spoke without 
consulting any of his captains ; he delivered his 
sentiments with much ease and propriety. He 
wore upon his left ear a plate of copper, the shape 
of a heart, about six inches long and five wide ; 
his beard is suffered to grow on his upper lip 
and under his chin. I did not observe any of his 
people reach the height of his shoulders ; he 
was six feet nine inches ; this we knew by his 
standing against the centre post which supported 
the tent. 
Intending before sunset to remove our waggons 
from Lintua's district of Patannee to that of 
Seretz, distant a mile and a half, we went 
forward on foot, intending to visit some other 
