CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 15 
English shoes; a fourth, a pair of gloves; at the same time 
pulling a pair out of his pocket which he assured us were 
English ; but added, with a sigh, that they were not his own, 
having borrowed them from a brother officer for the day. 
All these gentlemen expressed themselves in very broken 
English, and indeed there is scarcely a person in the town 
who does not speak enough of this language for the pur- 
poses of bartering or begging. 
Having taken leave of the Governor, we walked over the 
town, which is situated on a kind of platform or table land, 
nearly perpendicular on all sides, and quite so towards the 
bay. With the exception of half a dozen houses of the chief 
officers, which are plaistered and white-washed, and of the 
church, which is without a spire, and externally resembles 
a barn, this capital of the Cape Verde islands consists of 
three rows of hovels, constructed of stones and mud, and 
thatched with branches of the date tree, and chiefly inha- 
bited by negroes. 
The fortifications consist of what is here called a fort, but 
which an engineer would be puzzled to describe; and a line, 
facing the bay, of sixteen old iron guns, within a half demo- 
lished parapet wall. In a sort of bastion of the fort, the 
grave of Captain Eveleigh is distinguished by a patch of 
pavement of round pebbles. This officer, commanding His 
