58 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
experienced, carried us along shore until the evening, when 
we anchored in ten fathoms. ‘The land south of Mayumba 
to 3° 50’, has an agreeable appearance, rising in a series 
of three or four gentle elevations from the sea inland, the 
farthest and highest not deserving the name of hill; the 
whole covered with wood, except in some spots which 
were bare of wood, and resembled spots of burnt-up grass. 
A sandy beach margins the sea, which breaks in a surf 
that must prevent the access of an European boat, unless 
some of the many projecting points give shelter to coves 
where a landing may be effected. ‘The soundings are here 
very regular, altering about a fathom in a mile, and the depth 
at six miles off shore ten fathoms. The bottom is extremely 
various, but sand predominates, brown, black, white, with 
sometimes quartz pebbles, small lumps of yellow ochre, bits 
of corals, and fragments of shells of the cockle and venus 
genera. 
Never did Jover wait more anxiously for the hour of as- 
signation with his mistress, than we now did for that of the 
usual setting in of the sea breeze, cn which alone we found 
we must depend to finish this eternal passage, for the land 
winds were so faint as not to render us the smallest service, 
and the currents the day after new moon returned with en- 
creased velocity. 
