74 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
At daylight of the 6th we found Cape Padron bearing 
S.b. E.£E., and Shark Point S$. E.5S.; the latitude at 
noon in the same situation being 6° 5’. At noon weighed 
with a pretty fresh sea breeze, and ran in for the land 
between the above points, until within half a mile of the 
shore, when we had 20 fathoms water. We then bore up 
towards Shark Point, and immediately lost soundings, nor 
did we again get bottom with the hand lead until it sud- 
denly struck the ground in 5 fathoms ; the anchor with the 
chain cable was immediately let go, but finding the ship did 
not bring up, and was drifting’ from the buoy, I concluded 
the chain had snapped, and directed another anchor to be 
let go; but before this was done the ship was in 36 fathoms 
and still drifting; both the chain and cable were now veered 
away, and she at last brought up; but fearing she would 
again go adrift, the kedge anchor, backed by a smaller one, 
was run out. The Congo sloop, which had let go her anchor 
in 4 fathoms, also drove, and fell along side of us, but without 
any other ill consequence than the loss of her anchor and 
cable, which, by some mismanagement, was suffered to run 
out end for end. When the ship had brought up we found that 
she tailed on a mud bank with but 7 fathoms, while under 
the chains was 14, and under the bows 36. Where we first 
let go the anchor in 44 fathoms, there was no current what- 
