216 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
At ten, reached the gentleman’s town of Vooky filou, 
where our bearers had a long palaver for palm wine, which 
I was obliged to purchase at a high rate before they would 
stir a step further. Unfortunately 1 happened to spill 
some of it at the foot of our gentleman guide, on which he 
set off in the most violent rage, taking all his men along 
with him; and I now learned that, next to pointing a 
musquet, the spilling of palm wine was the grossest insult 
that could be offered to a gentleman. It was full two 
hours, and after making an ample apology for my acci- 
dental impoliteness, and a present of three bunches of 
beads, that he deigned to shake hands with me, and call 
his men back. 
The houses here are larger than below. 
Two gentlemen with heavy iron chains and rings on 
their legs and necks. 
At two P.M. we reached the head of a deep reach 
named Soondy N’Sanga, running W. by N. and E. by S.; 
here we stopped to dine. After dinner I wished to pro- 
ceed, but our bearers refused, asserting that they had al- 
ready walked two days. 
Finding all persuasions useless, I was obliged to pitch 
the tent at this place, and with Dr. Smith and Lieutenant 
Hawkey walked to the summit of a hill, where we perceived 
