LIFE OF MUNAMEETS. 
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in a commando against one of his neighbours. 
This they refused by the advice of one of their 
number, who knew that Makabba was a deceit- 
ful man. The Matchappees, therefore, went 
forward and attacked Makrakka, and the people 
among whom he had taken refuge, but they were 
defeated and obliged to make a hasty retreat, 
during which they came upon Makabba, who was 
lying in ambush to intercept them, whether they 
had been successful or unsuccessful. Rushing 
from the ambush he slew many of them. Thus 
instead of gaining by their persevering hostility 
against the Tauwe they were great losers. 
Some years after the above expeditions the 
Mashows dispatched ambassadors to Lattakoo, 
inviting them to assist in an attack upon the 
Lehoiya nation, with whom they had a quarrel. 
The Matchappees, consenting to the request of 
the Mashows, sent a strong party, of which Mu- 
nameets was one. The united army was success- 
ful in capturing and carrying off many cattle 
from the Lehoiya. On other expeditions, Mu- 
nameets remarked, God had preserved him, but 
in this he was wounded in the leg, not during 
the assault upon the Lehoiya, but from the avarice 
of his companions, who on their return attacked 
a kraal of poor Bootshuana Bushmen, in order 
to seize the few cattle of which they were pos- 
sessed. In the struggle he received the wound. 
