100 
SPEECH OF LAHEISEY. 
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father." To which he replied, " I hear ! The 
word of God is good, it is a peaceable word. I 
should like if it told that men should not die ; or 
how an old man could become young again. I 
have been told, it forbade people, if their property 
was taken from them, to pursue after those who 
had taken it. I do not like that ; I am not a 
friend to commandoes ; I would never go on 
them. Those I have gone upon have been by the 
pressing invitations of the Matchappees. On the 
last commando of Mateebe's, many of my people 
were killed. I am a sickly man, and should never 
be able to learn your singing. I like the word of 
God ever since it came to the Griquas, for, since 
that time, the neighbouring Corannas have never 
come to steal my cattle, so that I cannot refuse 
it." 
Munameets completely satisfied him about all 
his difficulties. His people told us that white 
men had never been in Turreehey before; this 
accounted for the consternation of the women and 
children, which was so great, that, when walking 
about the town, they fled from us as if we had 
been lions or tigers. Before the meeting was 
over, by Laheisey's orders a large wooden vessel, 
full of excellent thickened milk, was placed before 
each of us, which we sent to the waggons. 
The mountains, in tKe midst of which the town 
