18 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
men, whose state of all but nudity, and pendant flaccidity 
of bosom, seemed to wake our untravelled companions 
from the dreams they had indulged in of the sable Venuses 
which they were to find on the banks of the Congo. 
In the afternoon of the 10th we made a more extended 
excursion; quitting the town, we followed the sides and 
summits of the hills that bound the valley of Trinidad, for 
about three miles, when we came to a mean delapidated 
house, hanging over the precipitous brow of a platform, 
which we learnt was one of the Governor General’s country 
residences. At the foot of the precipice is what here may 
be called a garden, containing half a dozen cocoa-nut trees, 
some manioc, sweet potatoes, cotton shrubs, &c. Near this 
we measured a Boabab, (Adansonia digitata ), whose trunk, 
five feet from the ground, was 21 feet in circumference ; it 
was now without leaves, the branches much resembling those 
of the chestnut tree. 
A mile farther, at the head of a narrow glen, we found the 
negro hamlet of San Felippe, composed of a dozen huts. 
The bottom of the glen is covered with huge stones, evident- 
ly tumbled from the hills that enclose it; and from the foot 
of a vast mass of rock issues a fine spring, which serves to 
nourish a little plantation of fruits and vegetables. A very 
large tamarind tree, growing out of the crevice of a naked 
