64 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
ture representing two men, surrounded by the tips of goat’s 
horns, shells, and other rubbish, and slung over the shoulder 
with a belt of the skin of a snake. The features of these 
sculptured figures, instead of being Negro, as might be 
expected, were entirely Egyptian; the nose aquiline and 
the forehead high. The canoes are of a single tree; each 
had five men, who worked them with long paddles standing 
up. At night our visitors were satisfied with a sail in the 
*tween-decks, where they all huddled together, and from 
which they started at daylight to light their pipes and 
resume their devotions to the brandy bottle. 
As I had expected, we were obliged to anchor, by the 
failure of the sea breeze opposite to Cabenda, from whence, 
in the forenoon, a boat came off with another cargo of gen- 
tlemen; but, as I had been quite sufficiently plagued by my 
Malemba guests, I excused myself from not being able to 
receive them on board; the sea breeze being about to set 
in, and as there was no appearance of the Malemba boat 
bringing off the stock, I, much against their inclination, 
sent off my visitors in this boat. 
The information we picked up respecting the coast from 
Loango Bay to the mouth of the Zaire, proved, as we 
expected, that it is very erroneously laid down in the most 
recent charts. ‘The only river between Indian Point and 
