168 CONVERSATION WITH MATEEBE. \_18'20. 
in the meeting, and shaking hands with all the 
white people. 
I had a meeting with Mateebe, to inform him 
of my intention to leave Lattakoo in three or four 
days, and inquired if he had any message to send 
to our friends in England. He said that if he 
had possessed a cat-skin cloak, he would have 
sent it to them, but he had not one, they might 
send him any thing they liked." 
I reminded him that he had told me when in 
Lattakoo, about six years before, that Makkabba 
had murdered Dr. Cowan and his party, and 
that I wished to know if he was of the same 
opinion still ? He said he was, and stated as a 
proof, that Makkabba had a kraal of sheep still, 
which had belonged to Dr. Cowan, and another 
proof was, that the travellers had gone up and 
never returned. I told him that Liqueling, the pre- 
sent Regent of the Marootzee, had heard of their 
passing a town to the eastward of both him and 
the Wanketzens. He said he had heard of that 
also, but he believed Makkabba was the man 
who killed them. 
Those who assert that Makkabba did not mur- 
der them, allow that he robbed them of their 
sheep, as Mateebe said ; but add, that they were 
