6 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



abreast of Plymouth, we were obliged to run into the Sound, 

 where we lay for three days, perfectly sheltered by the 

 Breakwater from the violence of a S.W. gale. Here we 

 completed the Congo's complement, by receiving two ma- 

 rines, and entering two seamen, in lieu of as many who had 

 deserted at Sheerness the same evening on which they re- 

 ceived their advance. 



On the 5th of March, the wind moderating, though still at 

 S.W., we put to sea in the hope of being able to beat down 

 the Channel ; but the return of strong gales forced us into 

 Falmouth on the 6th, from whence we again sailed on the 

 9th, Avith a fine breeze at N. N.E.; this, however, failed us 

 on reaching the length of Scilly, and was succeeded by a 

 heavy galefrom S.W. , with extremely thick and dirty weather, 

 such as, at this season, renders the navigation of the English 

 channel equally disagreeable and dangerous, and which 

 now, by preventing our getting a pilot for Scilly, obliged us to 

 run back to Falmouth. In standing in for Scilly, we passed 

 the Bishop and Clerk's rocks at the distance of a mile, the 

 sea breaking on them in a frightful manner; we also passed 

 close to the Wolf rock, on which the sea also broke furi- 

 ously, but without that roaring noise whicli gave it its name, 

 and which formerly warned seamen of their danger. On en- 

 quiring at Falmouth, I was assured that, some years since, 



