204 CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 
Hypothesis confirmed. The water - --- -- -. 
Mistaken idea of anchoring ships out of the current for 
any length of time; the current always creating a cur- 
rent of air. 
Palm wine in the dry season only. Palm trees, when two 
years old, begin to give out wine. 
Sept. 18 Reached the transport; found her people all in 
health ; her decks crowded with goats, fowls, pigeons, pump- 
kins, plantains, flaskets of palm wine ; in short, the greatest 
appearance of abundance. 
The difference of atmosphere perceptible between this 
place and Embomma. Fresh sea breezes. 
Mangrove trees fit for? 
No fish but cat-fish. Few hippopotami below Yellala. , 
Quartz sand in vast quantities on the banks of the river ; 
must come from a great distance. 
Maucaya - - - ~ - - child, child-birth. 
Different foods fetished. Children fetished for eating the 
food which their fathers had been forbidden to eat. 
Women fetished for eating meat the same day that it is kil- 
led—with the men. When a man applies to a Gangam fora 
domestic fetish, he is at the same time instructed from what 
foods he must abstain; some eon fowls, others from 
plantains. 
