18 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



men, whose state of all hut nudity, and pendant flaccidity 

 of bosom, seemed to wake our untravelled companions 

 from the dreams they had indulged in of the sable Venuses 

 which they were to find on the banks of the Congo. 



In the afternoon of the 10th we made a more extended 

 excursion; quitting the town, we followed the sides and 

 summits of the hills that bound the valley of Trinidad, for 

 about three miles, when we came to a mean delapidated 

 house, hanging over the precipitous brow of a platform, 

 which we learnt was one of the Governor General's country 

 residences. At the foot of the precipice is what here may 

 be called a garden, containing half a dozen cocoa-nut trees, 

 some manioc, sweet potatoes, cotton shrubs, &c. Near this 

 we measured a Boabab, (Adamonia digitata), whose trunk, 

 five feet from the ground, Avas 21 feet in circumference; it 

 Avas now without leaves, the branches much resembling those 

 of the chestnut tree. 



A mile farther, at the head of a narrow glen, we found the 

 negro hamlet of San Felippe, composed of a dozen huts. 

 The bottom of the glen is covered with huge stones, evident- 

 ly tumbled from the hills that enclose it ; and from the foot 

 of a vast mass of rock issues a fine spring, which serves to 

 nourish a little plantation of fruits and vegetables. A very 

 large tamarind tree, growing out of the crevice of a naked 



