CHAP. V.] 
ADDA'S PROPOSAL j(J;j 
are specially intended for ornamenting the human 
head. 
It was fortunate that Nature had thus stocked La- 
tooka with game. It was impossible to procure any 
other meat; and not only were the ducks and geese 
to us what the quails were to the Israelites in the 
desert, but they enabled me to make presents to the 
natives that assured them of our good will. 
Although the Latookas were far better than other 
tribes that I had met, they were sufficiently annoying; 
CRIMSON-HEADED SPUR-WINGED GOOSE. 
they gave me no credit for real good will, but they 
attributed my forbearance to weakness. On one oc¬ 
casion Adda, one of the chiefs, came to ask me to join 
him in attacking a village to procure molotes (iron 
hoes); he said, “ Come along with me, bring your men 
and guns, and we will attack a village near here, and 
take their molotes and cattle ; you keep the cattle, and 
I will have the molotes/’ I asked him whether the 
village was in an enemy’s country ? “ Oh no ! ” he 
replied, “it is close here; but the people are rather 
rebellious, and it will do them good to kill a few, and 
