June.] INTELLIGENCE FROM LATTAKOO. lo5 
the north, and four or five hundred miles to the 
west. :. 
We had a meeting in the afternoon with some 
of the oldest men, to obtain information respect- 
ing the desert, &c. ; but though they had actually- 
lived on its borders since they were children, we 
found that they knew as little of it to the west 
and north of them, as they did of the continent 
of America. The particulars which we were 
able to collect are given in the following chapter. 
After worship, Laheisey brought a messenger, 
who had come to him in the evening from Clohas 
Place, on the Krooman, below Lattakoo, He 
told us there were some Wanketzens on a visit at 
Lattakoo, who had come from Makabba, and 
that three Matchappees had been drowned in 
the Great River, when returning from Beaufort 
fair. He likewise added, that Lintua, with a 
party, had gone to the kraal that had robbed and 
wounded the Mashows, to demand a restoration 
of the cattle which had been stolen ; and that 
some of Lintua's followers, on their way, had 
gone to one of the outposts of those people, cut 
their milk-bags, and done other mischief. The 
captain of the kraal, in his defence, said that it 
was some of the young people who had attacked 
the Mashows, and not himself; he was sorry for 
it; and that Lintua ought to have come to him for 
