J 16 INFORMATION I-ROM MAQUEETZE. 
desert extended far to the north, to a nation 
called Quabee, which means Grass Knee. 
He had not been farther to the north on the 
east side of the desert than Queese, a Matslaroo 
town belonging to Laheisey. The size of this 
place he compared to that of Mateebe's district 
of Lattakoo, which is considerable, and around 
it there are few trees, little water, and no hills. 
He also remembered the Krooman River running 
in the desert opposite to the Laheisey Mountains. 
Information from Maqueetze, a Lattakoo Captain, 
respecting the Mampoor, a People living at the 
north end of the Great Southern Zahara, or 
Desert, to which People he had travelled, accom- 
panied by many of his countrymen. 
THE Matchappees first heard of Mampoor 
from the Kalliharry, a people living on the way 
to Mampoor, with whom the Matchappees have 
long traded, and from whom are obtained the 
wild cat-skins of which their most valuable cloaks 
are made. The Kalliharry received their infor- 
mation from a remarkably small race of Bushmen, 
who roam over part of the Great Southern Za^ 
hara, and who had made some successful plunder- 
