90 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
of which of any consideration after passing Fuma,is Kanga- 
vemba, (Alligator’s pond of Maxwell), which seems to be a 
large expanse of water, but according to the natives, goes but 
a little way inland. ‘The next considerable creek is that 
whose entrance contains the three islands called by Maxwell, 
Bonnet, Knox, and Halcyon ; the first having its name from 
a clump of trees, and is called by the natives Zoonga, 
Casaquoisa ; Knox’s island the natives describe as a penin- 
sula. ‘The eastern part of the entrance of this creek forms 
an excellent little haven, where the Congo was now an- 
chored, entirely out of the stream of the river in five fathoms. 
This inlet, the natives say, goes up to the town of Loocansey, 
the distance from the mouth being about three hours rowing 
of a boat. 
July 21. This morning we sent a party to haul the seine on 
one of the banks which lie close to Knox’s island, and took 
great abundance of fish of four species ; one being a Sparus 
of a large size, a mullet a (Surmuletus), and an old wife 
( Bailistes ). A brig under Spanish colours, with 12 guns and 
50 men, cleared out from the Havannah, arrived this day in 
the river for slaves ; her nominal mate, butreal captain (named 
Sherwood) and a number of their crew being English and 
Irish, though pretended Americans, left no doubt of her 
being either English or American property. 
