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SUCCESS OF THE MATCHAPPEES. 
using wild Avater-melons in its stead. On one 
occasion they came to a pool in which elephants 
had been standing during the night ; they all 
drank of the water, which occasioned violent 
sickness. They found a pool in a large cave 
under a cliff, into which the oxen went and 
drank; and on the seventeenth day afterwards 
they came to the Great Water, [or ocean,] of 
which they were all afraid ; it had stars upon it, 
(perhaps meaning those parts that reflected the 
sun's rays,) and great waves that ran after them, 
and then ran back again ; they had never seen 
any such sight before. The water was like a 
great country that had no end. They saw swarms 
of locusts fall into the water, which were all 
drowned. The country was level near the sea, 
but there were hills at the distance of ten 
miles. 
The Mampoors had been warned of their ap- 
proach, and were making their cattle swim to an 
island at a little distance from the shore. Ma- 
queetze, being a young man, volunteered with 
some others to push forward and intercept them. 
His party succeeded in capturing about an hun- 
dred and fifty oxen and cows. The Mampoors 
supposed they had intended to attack the town ; 
when however they saw them retreating with the 
cattle they had taken, they pursued them, but 
were repulsed with the loss of three men. They 
