152 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
scattered with rocky barren-islets. ‘The river is here, judg- 
ing by the eye, not more than 5 mile broad, and I estimate 
the distance from Yellala at 12 or 14 miles. Upwards my 
view was stopped by the sudden turn of the river from 
north to S. E.; the concavity of the angle forming a large 
bay, apparently freer from obstructions than below. I 
descended a most precipitous path to the river side, where 
I found four women fishing with a scoop net; they had no 
canoe, and I learnt that persons wanting to cross the river 
are obliged to go from hence to the ferry above Yellala. 
Just where the river shuts in, in turning to the S. E., on a 
high plateau of the north shore, is the banza Inga, which 
we understood was two days march from Cooloo (though its 
direct distance is not above 20 miles,) and that it is out of 
the dominions of Congo. The only other information I could 
get here was, that the river, after a short reach to the 8. E., 
turned again to the north; and the appearance of the hills 
seemed to corroborate this information ; but as to the state 
of its navigation, or the possibility of getting canoes, I could 
not acquire the slightest notion. 
On the return of the people with water from the river we 
dined where the men halted, and set out on our return for 
the boats ; at eight o’clock we reached Cooloo (having this 
day walked ten hours), where we found Mr. Tudor in a 
violent fever. 
