214 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
and at the foot of the rise, is a line of trees. The southern 
shore is steep and rocky. 
Horrible face with the leprosy. 
Natives extremely abstemious, a little raw manioc and 
water and their pipe, for a day: devour all the meat you 
will give them. 
The wind always from the westward, inclining up the 
reaches, so that there is always either a free or leading 
wind; and yet the natives have not the least notion of 
applying sails to their canoes: indeed the wars of neigh- 
bouring tribes render the water intercourse as limited as 
that by land. 
Size of their canoes. 
Their distribution of time consists of a week of four days, 
or a sona ; the first day of which is named Sona, and on this 
day they refrain from working in the plantations, under the 
superstitious notion that the crop would fail; they however 
perform any other kind of work. The second day is named 
Candoo, the third Ocoonga, and the fourth Cainga. The 
month, or Gonda, is thirty days; the year, M’Voo, consists 
of the rainy and dry season, that is to say several Gondas. 
They believe in a good and evil principle, the former 
they call- - - - - and the latter Codian Penba, both 
supposed to reside in the sky; the former, they say, sends 
