July.] 
l^RESENT FROM MAHOOTOO. 
the Wanketzen country, as they had not been 
heard of since. Mateebe then rose, and asked 
who had given permission to have a cattle-kraal 
made in that direction from the tow^n ? Then he 
pointed with his spear to all the points of the 
compass, saying, that to these they must carry 
their arms ! On saying so, he was cheered by 
all ; but this was a mere bravado. 
20th. A considerable party came from Mashow 
for traffic, and Pelangye arrived from Old Lat- 
takoo. 
21st. Mahootoo, the queen, took from her 
arm an ivory ring, and made me a present of it, 
the first article I had seen her part with, though 
I had made her numerous presents ; but she and 
Mateebe are both very covetous. She had a 
small piece of stick suspended on the left side of 
her cloak, about nine or ten inches long, with 
the bark on it, and full of notches cut with a 
knife. She said it was made by the doctor, and 
she wore it to cure a head-ache. She would not 
part with that, but brought me one in the after- 
noon exactly like it, and informed me that it 
ieured either by hanging to the dress, or if I put 
the point of it into the fire and drew up the 
smoke into my nostrils it would remove the pain. 
23rd. A message came from Kossie, King of 
