CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 59 
On the 28th we had reached the latitude of 4° 30’, and 
found the land we passed from 3° 50’, more picturesque than 
to the north; the variety of elevations being here greater, and 
the clear spaces more numerous; these we were however 
now led to think the signs of barrenness rather than of fer- 
tility, having, when viewed near, the appearance of tracts of 
naked reddish clay. 
We were now opposite to Loango bay, the red hills on the 
north side of which (formed by clay of the appearance above 
mentioned) we anchored off, in 16 fathoms mud, at about 8 
miles distance. ‘The next afternoon, when the sea breeze set 
in, we weighed ; but itagain dying away, we found ourselves 
carried towards the land by the current, and again let 
go the anchor in 12 fathoms ; but before the ship brought 
up we were in 8 fathoms on a reef of rocks, over which the 
current ran to the N.N. E. two miles an hour. The south 
point of the bay (Indian Point) bearing S.E. ‘The sea 
breeze freshening, we cut our cable, and leaving the stream 
anchor behind us, made sail and deepened gradually over 
the rocky bottom until in 12 fathoms, when it again became 
soft and mud. 
This reef is in about latitude 4° 30’ (an observation 
at noon possibly erring 2 or 3 miles, the horizon being bad), 
and it lays seven miles off shore; towards which latter 
