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ter and Sommerville, Leetakoo has been moved 
sixty miles from its former situation, in conse- 
quence of a schism in the ruling powers. It ap- 
pears now consequently smaller than before, con- 
taining only fifteen hundred houses, and between 
seven and eight thousand inhabitants. 
Mr Campbell agrees with former reporters as 
to the gay, gentle, and peaceable demeanour of 
these people. The labours were not only per- 
formed by the women, but the queen herself work- 
ed at their head. Reason was found to believe, 
that the tranquillity was internal only, and that 
the Boshuanas carried on war as fiercely as all 
other barbarians. The usual object of their ex- 
peditions is to plunder the cattle of their neigh- 
bours. Mr Campbell having, in the course of re- 
ligious instruction, asked one of them " for what 
" end man was made," the answer was, " for 
" plundering expeditions." Materee, one of the 
chiefs, had recently made a long excursion to the 
westward, over extensive deserts, till he came to a 
great water, probably the Atlantic Ocean, where 
they found a harmless people, many of whom he 
killed, and carried off their cattle. The stand- 
ard of excellence is formed by the number of men 
whom each individual has killed ; and in this scale, 
one white man is considered equivalent to two 
black. 
The two tribes immediately to the north of 
