July.] MESSENGER FROM MAKKABBA. 
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they said, however, that Cupido thought favour- 
ably of it. It lies between Old Lattakoo and 
Malapeetzee. 
Two messengers, from Makkabba, arrived at 
Lattakoo a few days before, neither of whom 
wereWanketzens. Merobey, [or, Peculiar Sack,] 
belonging to a kraal lower down the Krooman, 
and lived with Makkabba, according to his own 
confession, as a spy from Mateebe, to send him 
what information he could obtain of Makkabba's 
doings and designs. The other Chookoroor, [or, 
Rhinoceros,] was a Baroolong, or Mashow man,, 
and rather connected with Buys, the runaway 
boor, than Makkabba. 
They said Makkabba wished to know why we 
visited the Mashows, Marootzees, &c., and not 
him 1 What we thought of him, that we Avould 
not come and see him ? Did we think he was a 
bad man ? In answer they were told that it was 
because Makkabba had not made his peace with 
Mateebe, with whom we were friends, and be- 
cause in every town we visited on our way up 
the country, we found messengers from him try 
ing to stir them up to war ; that we were afraid 
to come to a place where the people were not 
peaceably disposed. They said that when the 
first news came to the Wanketzens of our journey, 
Buys said it was a commando from his captain 
