CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 79 
The three succeeding days, there being either no sea 
breeze, or only such as was too weak to attempt any thing 
with our brute of a transport, we were obliged to remain at 
anchor, rolling gunnel in, from the ground swell on the 
bank ; consoling ourselves however that, of the three evils 
which threatened us, we had escaped the two worst, either 
being obliged to anchor on the Mazea bank, or being 
driven by the current to the northward, God knows where. 
Our Shark Point visitors were now succeeded by the 
Mafook of Market Point and a gentleman from Embomma, 
who told us he was sent by the Great Mafook of that place 
to accompany us up the river, in order that no accident 
should happen to us; and though I would very gladly have 
foregone the pleasure of their company, I could not refuse 
receiving them on board. I however endeavoured to make 
them clearly understand that they were not to expect the 
same attentions on board a King’s ship (I was sorry to be 
obliged to disgrace the name by applying it to the detestable 
transport,) which they had been used. to receive from slave 
traders; and the uniforms of the officers, and the marines, 
seemed to give them the proper feeling of our consequence. 
Several of the Sonio men who came on board were Chris- 
tians after the Portuguese fashion, having been converted 
by missionaries of that nation; and one of them was 
