126 CAPTAIN. TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
They have no other manner of reckoning or keeping an 
account of time than by moons; so that beyond half a 
dozen moons not one of them can tell the lapse of time 
since any event may have happened. ‘The day they divide 
into morning or breakfast, noon or grand time, and evening 
or supper. The sea breeze was insufficient to bring the 
Congo up either this day or the 4th. 
August 4. This forenoon I landed on the main land 
opposite Booka Embomma, and found it composed of 
very rugged hills, chiefly granite, with very little wood. An 
Adansonia here measured 42 feet in girth at the ground, 
and carried nearly the same circumference to the height of 
50 feet. Where the boat anchored we found a regular tide, 
the rise and fall being 13 inches, and the current little or 
nothing during the rise. 
August 5. Got the Congo up to a good anchorage on 
the south shore, opposite Chesalla island, where, finding we 
should be much retarded by persevering in the attempt to 
get higher, from the precariousness of the sea breezes, I 
ordered her to be moored, and directed Mr. Eyre, the 
purser, to remain in charge of her; together with the sur- 
geon, a master’s mate, and 15 men. 
