128 INFORMATION FROM HANOBEY. [1820. 
His daughters' names were Sooass, Towuss, 
Noeis, and Mayess. 
His father's name was Kooreekey, but he was 
ignorant of the name of his grandfather. Koo- 
reekey was killed when on a commando against 
Makkabba, the King of the Wanketzens, when 
his son, Hanobey, was about twenty years of 
of age. His forefathers, like himself, always 
lived near the Nokannan River. He well re- 
membered when it was a considerable stream 
running into the Krooman River, but it dried up 
when his son, Haatshahha, was born, or nearly 
about that time. The stream did not fall off 
gradually, but all at once. His people were 
formerly numerous, but many of them had been 
killed in three commandoes against the Wan- 
ketzens and Mashows. The Long-Mountain 
Bushmen, south of Chopo, have sometimes at- 
tacked them and stolen their cattle. They are 
seldom visited by lions, but when they come it 
is always from the north. If a large number 
appears, (which has not been the case for a con- 
siderable time,) all the men are accustomed to 
arm themselves, and generally either kill or drive 
them away. There are wolves and cameleopards, 
but the latter generally keep near the mountains 
of Laheisey. They have frequently, what he 
called " terrible rains," at that time of the year 
when their days are about the longest, but they 
