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GENERAL HABITS

two or three of the sons of tooas, who by theirstrength and agility in wrestling, or bravery inboxing, or some other ostensible quality, re-commend themselves to his notice, and there-fore become also his companions. Thus theygrow up in years together, and as the youngchief approaches towards manhood, he does notexact, but he receives, with more or less affabi-lity, the respect and attention which his inferiorassociates readily pay him, and who now maybe termed his cow-tangala, i. e. associates, sup-porters, and defenders of his cause. He hasnot yet, however, any matabooles in his train,for all these are in the immediate service of theold chief, and the son of a mataboole cannot bea mataboole till his father is dead, and then hewould not perform the functions of a mataboole,unless he were grown to man’s estate, andeven then he would not be in the service of theyounger chief, but of the elder. By and by theold chief dies, and the young one succeeds tohis authority, and all the matabooles of hisfather become his matabooles, and the inferior-chiefs and mooas also enter his service in addi-tion to those he had before; and though severalof them upon this change may choose to retireto their plantations, they are, nevertheless, inhis service whenever he may call upon them.In this order of things it happens, generally,