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LIFE OF MUNAMEETS. 
reaching- the Matchappees at Lattakoo, they 
went on an expedition against the Tauwe to re- 
venge the aggression, on which occasion they 
succeeded in taking many of their cattle. 
Elated, but not satisfied with their success, the 
Matchappees marched a second time against 
them, when they defeated and slew many of the 
inhabitants and burnt their city. Munameets 
went upon the first expedition, though he could 
take but little share in it, being at that time 
much pained by a wound in his leg, which he 
had received from a poisoned arrow in a skirmish 
with John Bloom. In the second expedition. 
King Mallayabang would not permit any of his 
relatives to go, nor did he take the command 
himself, but gave it to Maklaka Mabot, one of 
his chief captains ; so Munameets was prevented 
from taking an active part in this last attack. 
After their discomfiture, and the destruction of 
their city, the Tauwe fled for protection to a 
nation beyond the Wanketzens ; but even there 
the Matchappees would not permit them to re- 
main in peace, but went upon a third expedition 
against them. On their march thither they fell 
in with Makabba, King of the Wanketzens, en- 
gaged in a hunting excursion, who, on hearing 
the object of their expedition, tried to divert 
them from it, and invited them to unite with him 
