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LIFE OF SEEKLORY. 
SOME ACCOUNT OF SEEKLORY,' 
Commonly called Sedrass, the Matchappee Inter- 
preter to the Mission at Lattakoo. 
SEEKLORY was born at Long- Mountain, 
which lies about three days' journey to the S. W. 
of New Lattakoo. His parents belonged to a 
tribe of Matchappees, called Mootching ; his 
father's name was Mallayavang. Their tribe 
of a nature to excite the least rational interest either in them- 
selves or others. It is one uniform but disgusting scene, varied 
only by sensual excesses at one time, or absolute want at an- 
other, with occasional marauding expeditions, generally pro- 
jected for no other object in reality but the plunder of cattle. 
What a promising field here opens for the labours of the en- 
lightened Missionary, who shall make instruction in the arts 
of civilized life go hand in hand with the introduction of the 
Gospel. Could these unhappy Africans be prevailed on to 
pay that attention to pastoral and agricultural concerns, to 
which their fine climate and admirable soil invite them, they 
might revel in such abundance of all the necessaries of life as 
would no longer leave them the excuse of necessity for preda- 
tory inroads on their neighbours ; and the wholesome counsel 
and salutary example of the Missionaries established amongst 
them, could hardly fail of changing a realm of want, murder, 
and plunder, into an interesting and extensive tract of country, 
enjoying the blessings of comparative plenty, peace, and se- 
curity. 
