CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 65 
Cabenda is the Loango-Louise, and is that marked in the 
charts by the name of Kacongo, being by our observations 
when at anchor nearly opposite to it, 5°17’. Its opening is 
between two high lands, and appears to be wide and clear. 
The country is divided into petty sovereignties, tributary 
to the king of Loango; the northernmost of these states, 
after passing Laongo bay, is named Boal, to which suc- 
ceeds Makongo, of which Malemba is the port; then that 
of N’Goy, whose port is Cabenda, and which extends 
along the north side of the entrance of the river Congo. 
The king of Makongo, or Malemba, resides inland at a town 
named Chingelé (evidently the Kinhelé of the charts,) but 
which is not situated on a river. From our visitors [ pro- 
cured a vocabulary of their language; they all speaking 
English to be perfectly understood, and several of them 
French still more correctly. 
While at anchor this day, I sent two boats in shore to 
look for the bank of Belé, said by Grand Pré to be situated 
south-west of Malemba, and which, according to him, 
shoals suddenly from seven fathoms. 'The boats, however, 
could not find any bank, but on the contrary, the water 
shoaled very regularly from where the ship was anchored 
in 15 fathoms to 5 fathoms within about three miles of the 
shore, all soft muddy bottom. One of the natives on board 
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