210 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
At six P. M., after having rounded a rocky peninsula, 
we anchored in a fine bay named Covinda, formed by this 
and another rocky peninsula a little higher up. The night 
presented a beautiful picture of repose ; fine scenery, the 
moon, the stillness of the water. Alligators most abundant. 
Sept. 7th. The morning set in with light rain. Here 
we observed the river to have risen three inches in the 
night, the total or highest rise by the rocks sixteen inches. 
Some women brought us a large quantity oflime. Bought 
a goat for two and a half fathoms of chintz. ‘The people 
very civil. Set off at eight A.M., rounded the marble 
peninsula, and opened out beautiful scenery, equal to any 
thing on the banks of the Thames ; the bare stone rock in 
many places resembled ruimed castles over-hanging the 
river ; several fine grassy coves. Purchased a large bunch 
of plaintains for 14 fathoms. 
The teeth of both men and women were notched thus, 
Wart. Saw a large flock of ducks, the precursors 
of rain. ' 
Many marble promontories now jutted. out on this side, 
round some of which the current sets three miles and half 
an hour. As it is necessary to take a long circuit round the 
bays by land, I hired another canoe where we stopped to 
dine at one o’clock, for four fathoms, to carry the rest of 
