92 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
muddy swamp in the middle, the islands being covered with 
reedy grass. By the natives they are named Monpanga, 
or look-out. They were covered with fishing eagles, terns, 
white herons, and other beach birds, of which several were 
shot, and Dr. Smith collected no fewer than thirty new 
species of plants. Our bearings at anchor were, west end 
of Tall 'Tree island nearly shut in with the north shore, west, 
and the entrance of Maxwell’s river, N.E. 
At noon we had a light breeze from W.S.W.; weighed 
and ran along the edge of the shoals in one and two fathoms ; 
at four, a fresh breeze; and being past the low reedy 
islands and shoals, we ran along the bank of the mangrove 
Jand, nearly touching the trees in 3 or 4 fathoms until 7 
o’clock, when the darkness obliged us to anchor in 2 fathoms. 
July 23. At daylight, we found that we had anchored 
within 20 yards of a dry shoal; being also close to the 
island named Draper’s island by Maxwell, and Zoonga 
Kampenzey or Monkey island by the natives; bearings as 
entered in yesterday’s journal (by mistake). ‘The land, for 
about 3 miles west of the entrance of Maxwell’s river, is 
thickly covered with palms intermixed with the mangrove, 
and other trees; and here a great quantity of palm wine is 
made for the Embomma market. Hordes of Negroes came 
down to the bank as we passed, and learning that we had 
