1g6 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
first got up, and made a long speech, appealing every now 
and then to the other (common) people who were seated, 
and who all answered by a kind of howl. During this 
speech he held in his hand the war kissey, composed 
of buffalo’s hair, and dirty rags; and which (as we after- 
wards understood) he occasionally invoked to break the 
locks, and wet the powder of our muskets. As I had 
no intention of carrying the affair to any extremity, I went 
from the place where I was seated, opposite to the palaver, 
and familiarly seating myself along side the Macaya, shook 
him by the hand, and explained, that though he might see 
I had the power to do him a great deal of harm, I had little 
to fear from his rusty musquets ; and that though I had great 
reason to be displeased with their conduct and breach 
of promise, I would pass it over, provided I was assured of 
having a guide at day-light ; which was promised, on condi- 
tion that the gentlemen should receive eight fathoms of 
cloth. 
The people here had never before seen a white man, and 
the European commodities we saw were reduced to a little 
stone jug and some rags of cloathing. ‘The language is a 
dialect of that of Embomma, but considerably differing. 
The Chenoo receives his cap from the Benzy N’Congo, who 
resides ten days journey to the N. W. and not on the river. 
