JuLt.] RESTORATION OF CATTLE. I45 
chappee wives married a Matslaroo captain at 
Patannee, and brought with her about a hun- 
dred head of cattle. This captain, besides using 
her ill, killed more of her cattle than of his own 
for the support of the family. Being dissatisfied, 
she had left him, preferring to live with her son, 
by Kreega, than with the captain, but he would 
not restore her cattle. She laid her complaint 
before Mateebe,^ Avho sent one of his trusty ser- 
vants with her son to endeavour to settle the 
business with the captain. Mateebe called on 
Mr. R. in the evening, telling him that they had 
returned from Patannee with seventeen head of 
cattle, and the lad being the son of a Makooa, (or 
white man,) he wished Mr. R. to come along with 
him to witness the restoration. 
The husband and the runaway wife were there. 
She declared she was not satisfied with the 
seventeen oxen and cows, when there ought to 
have been about a hundred. It had been reported 
that when the husband heard of the young man's 
coming to demand his mother's cattle, he em- 
ployed a person to drive away those which were 
left, to a distance from Patannee. She threat- 
ened to go and procure a commando of Griquas 
and to demand them from Lintua the husband's 
chief. It was thought at Lattakoo that this 
threat would terrify them to give up the re- 
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