CHAP. XVII. 
LIVES OF SOME MATCHAPPEES. 
LIFE OF MUNAMEETS, 
Umle to Mateebey the King of LaUakoo, as related 
by himself. 
MuNAMEETS was bom at Nokannan in the 
confines of the Great Southern Zahara, or Desert, 
near Long Mountain. His father's name was 
Bashway, and his mother's Picquaney. He is 
reputed to be the uncle of Mateebe by the mar- 
riage of his father with the grandmother of Ma- 
teebe. Bashway was murdered by a Bushman, 
near to Nokannan, while on a hunting excursion. 
Soon after his father's death, the Corannas made 
war against the Matchappees, in which they 
drove them from Nokannan to Catooss, and 
