184 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
August 26. While Lieutenant Hawkey was gone to 
Cooloo to bring up the luggage, I visited the river from 
Inga, being about a mile distant. The reach here runs 
east and west for three or four miles, and in that dis- 
tance had three successive falls, the highest Songa Yellala. 
On my return I found a present of four chickens from the 
blind Chenoo, with a request that I would give him four 
fathoms of baft in return ; but as I deemed half that quan- 
uty to be four times the value of his present, I sent him two 
fathoms, which were soon after brought back to me, with — 
a violent complaint thatI had given four fathoms each to the 
Mambok and Macanga, and that the king expected the 
same; as the former was however an exaction before I could 
procure guides, I did not think it necessary to comply with 
the Chenoo’s demand, but taking back the two fathoms 
sent him nothing, and in a very short time another mes- 
sage came from him requesting he might have the two 
fathoms, which I again delivered to be given to him. 
A gangam kissey passed through the banza attended 
by his clerk or drum-beater, with all the instruments of his 
profession, viz. a big drum, a parcel of calabashes filled 
with small stones, a piece of tree, and a dozen stinking 
fetiches. We found that he had been sent for to a neigh- 
bouring village to discover the cause of a man’s death. 
