6 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
abreast of Plymouth, we were obliged to run into the Sound, 
where we lay for three days, perfectly sheltered by the 
Breakwater from the violence of a S.W. gale. Here we 
completed the Congo’s complement, by receiving two ma- 
vines, and entering two seamen, in lieu of as many who had 
deserted at Sheerness the same evening on which they re- 
ceived their advance. 
On the 3th of March, the wind moderating, though still at 
S.W., we put to sea in the hope of being able to beat down 
the Channel; but the return of strong gales forced us into 
Falmouth on the 6th, from whence we again sailed on the 
Oth, with a fine breeze at N. N.E.; this, however, failed us 
en reaching the length of Scilly, and was succeeded by a 
heavy gale from S.W., with extremely thick and dirty weather, 
such as, at this season, renders the navigation of the English 
channel equally disagreeable and dangerous, and which 
now, by preventing our getting a pilot for Scilly, obliged us to 
run back to Falmouth. In standing in for Scilly, we passed 
the Bishop and Clerk’s rocks at the distance of a mile, the 
sea breaking on them in a frightful manner; we also passed 
close to the Wolf rock, on which the sea also broke furi- 
ously, but without that roaring noise which gave it its name, 
and which formerly warned seamen oftheir danger. Onen- 
quiring at Falmouth, I was assured that, some years since, 
