60 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
we sounded for three cables lengths, and found 7+ fathoms, 
nor is it probable that there is much less until near the shore, 
between which and the ship many whales were seen sporting, 
and they doubtless would not go into very shoal water. 
The position of Loango bay is most erroneously laid down 
in the latest charts, the latitude of Indian Point being 4°57’ 
(we were in 4°39' at noon of the 29th, by good observation, 
when the pitch of the point bore E.£%. true bearing). 
The description of the land however in Laurie and Whittle’s 
chart is sufficiently exact, and particularly so with re- 
spect to Indian Point, which strongly resembles the Bill 
of Portland, but of a greater length. The north side 
-of the bay is formed by reddish land of moderate eleva- 
tion, with ravines or fissures resembling chalky cliffs dis- 
coloured by the weather, These high lands descend gra- 
dually to the low land at the bottom of the bay; Indian 
Point also falls gradually towards the south into low land 
entirely covered with wood. Here the water was first ob- 
served to have a deep red tinge as if mixed with blood, but 
on being examined in a glass was found perfectly colourless ; 
the bottom however seems to account for this appearance, 
being a soft mud composed of a reddish clay without 
the smallest mixture of sand, and so smooth that it might be 
laid on as paint. ‘The only fish taken since we have been 
