324 DISPUTE BETWEEN MICHAEL, &c. [1820. 
The runaways getting into the midst of a drove of 
oxen, belonging to the Corannas who travelled 
with us, the waggons were stopped without any 
serious injury being sustained. Much discus- 
sion afterwards took place among our people, as 
to what caused the alarm, but they could not 
agree on that point. As it generally happened, 
the majority cast the blame upon some lions, 
which they supposed to have been near. 
A serious dispute occurred between two of 
the Corannas and Michael, one of our Hotten- 
tots, which, not being able to settle among them- 
selves, was referred to us for a decision. The 
case was this, Michael had observed an animal, of 
the same species as the knoo, wounded and in a 
feeble state. He had pointed it out to two of 
the Corannas who travelled with us, and who 
joined him in the pursuit of it. Approaching 
the animal he fired, but missed it, when the Co- 
rannas rushed forward and cut its throat ; it was 
about the size of a small horse ; the Corannas, 
after it was cut up, carried the whole of the flesh 
on their pack-oxen, till the waggons halted in the 
evening. Michael allotted only a third of the 
flesh to the two Corannas, with which they were 
dissatisfied. Adam Kok, the Griqua captain, 
stated, that the rule in such a case among the 
Griquas was, that the animal should be consi- 
/ dered as the property of the person who had first 
