CHAP. XI. 
INFORMATION OBTAINED AT TURREEHEY FROM 
THE OLDEST MEN OF THE PLACE. 
The following is the substance of the informa- 
tion I obtained at Turreehey. I was told by the 
oldest men of the place, that three days' journey 
up the east side of the Great Desert, to the north 
of Turreehey, there is a Matslaroo town, called 
Queese. Morai, the captain of it, is a younger 
brother of Laheisey. It is situated in what was 
formerly the bed of the river Moloppo, The in- 
habitants are under Laheisey, and, like him, 
acknowledge Mateebe as their superior. Origi- 
nally all the Matslaroos constitued a part of the 
Marootzee nation ; but wishing to separate, they 
pretended to go on a jackal-hunt, and never re- 
turned. They took up their first residence near 
a grove of trees, called, in the Bootshuana lan- 
guage, Matslaroo ; from which circumstance they 
