66 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
assured us that he had been on the bank in question, with 
Mr. Maxwell, and that it lies within a short distance of the 
shore, and nearer to Malemba than Cabenda. 
Having weighed with a tolerable sea breeze, we were 
enabled to stand along shore until eight in the evening, 
when being in 8 fathoms, the anchor was let go, and the 
current was found running N.N.W. 13 mile an hour; an 
officer being sent in shore to sound, reported that the 
water shoaled very gradually to three fathoms within half 
a mile of the shore, near to which is a lengthened reef, 
with the sea breaking violently, but which seems to shelter 
the beach within it, and thereby affords landing to boats. 
The coast from 4° 50’ is moderately elevated, forming 
reddish gray cliffs, similar to those near Loango bay ; 
until past Cabenda, when the coast descends to low land 
covered with wood, (apparently the mangrove) and our 
view this day terminated on the Red Point of the charts, 
(Chabaroca point of the natives) which they informed us 
was the entrance of a little river. 
