144 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
succeed in passing Zoonga Tooley Calavangoo, and anchored 
on the opposite shore ; but a very strong sea breeze spring- 
ing up in the evening she joined me. 
In the afternoon I went on shore and ascended the highest 
hills under which we were anchored, and whose elevation 
might be 500 feet. From hence our upward view of the 
river was confined to a single short reach, the appearance 
of which, however, was sufficient to convince us, that there 
was little prospect of being able to get the double boats up 
much farther, and none at all of being able to transport 
them by land. Both sides of the river appeared to be lined 
by rocks above water, and the middle obstructed by whirl- 
pools, whose noise we heard in a constant roar, just where 
our view terminated by the closing in of the points. High 
breakers seemed to cross the river ; and this place we learnt 
was called Casan Yellala, or Yellala’s wife, and were told 
that no canoe ever attempted to pass it. ‘The most distant 
hill, whose summit appeared above the rest at the distance 
of perhaps 7 or 8 leagues, we found was that of Yellala.’ 
The appearance of the river here was compared by 
Dr. Smith to the torrent rivers of Norway, and particularly 
the Glommen, the hills on each side being high, precipitous 
towards the river, totally barren, and separated by such deep 
ravines as to preclude the idea of conveying even a canoe 
