June.] FORMER STAtE OF THE KROOMAN. 93 
tion with the Matchappees. When the battle 
was at its height, the Matchappees and Matslaroos 
fled, leaving the Corannas nearly surrounded by 
the enemy. Thirty of them were cut off, and 
only four escaped. One of the four was present, 
who said he escaped by flying before his party 
were completely surrounded. The others re- 
mained together, defending themselves to the 
last. 
When marching up the country against the 
Mashows, &c. they came near Makkabba's place, 
who would have persuaded them to assist him 
against the Marootzee, which they declined, nor 
would they permit him to join them against the 
Mashows. However, while they were attacking 
the Mashows, Makkabba attacked a people whom 
they had passed, and who were consequently ofl" 
their guard. 
All the elderly people at this meeting asserted, 
that in their young days the Krooman was a great 
river, and as a proof of this, said that, some- 
times it rose and continued high for so long a 
time, that women who happened to be on the 
other side of the river, frequently lost all hope of 
being able to recross it, and married other men, 
they also asserted that great quantities of reeds 
grew in it. Much water they said used to come 
down from the Moloppo, which formed a junc- 
