LIFE OF SEEKLORY. 
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possessed cattle until they were attacked by the 
Corannas, who deprived them, at one stroke, of 
all their means of subsistence, which obliged 
them to live on roots, wild berries, gum, locusts, 
white ants, and other insects. They sometimes 
caught a koodoo, which is a large animal of the 
antelope kind ; but the toil was great, the chase 
continuing for two or three days, under a burn- 
ing sun, till the hoofs of the animal were worn 
off, and the thorns piercing into his feet made 
him seek shelter in a bush, when he became an 
easy prey. 
The last attack of the Corannas, which com- 
pleted the ruin of the Mootching tribe, happened 
when Seeklory was a boy, and confined by illness. 
He remembered his father dragging him from the 
houses, and concealing him among some rocks 
on the mountain with the children of his two 
uncles ; after which he ran and joined his people, 
who were fighting the Corannas. 
The loss of all their cattle prevented the tribe 
from living together, and compelled them to dis- 
perse themselves over the country to procure 
food, nor have they been again re-united. His 
parents, and the families of his relations, remained 
in the vicinity of Long Mountain. 
Seeklory continued with his father till his 
