64 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



ture representing two men, surrounded by the tips of goat's 

 horns, shells, and other rubbish, and slung over the shoulder 

 with a belt of the skin of a snake. The features of these 

 sculptured figures, instead of being Negro, as might be 

 expected, were entirely Egyptian; the nose aquiUne and 

 the forehead high. The canoes are of a single tree ; each 

 had five men, who worked them with long paddles standing 

 up. At night our visitors were satisfied with a sail in the 

 'tween-decks, where they all huddled together, and from 

 which they started at daylight to light their pipes and 

 resume their devotions to the brandy bottle. 



As I had expected, we were obliged to anchor, by the 

 failure of the sea breeze opposite to Cabenda, from whence, 

 in the forenoon, a boat came off with another cargo of gen- 

 tlejiien; but, as I had been quite suificiently plagued by my 

 Malemba guests, I excused myself from not being able to 

 receive them on board ; the sea breeze being about to set 

 in, and as there was no appearance of the Malemba boat 

 bringing off the stock, I, much against their inclination, 

 sent off" my visitors in this boat. 



The information we picked up respecting the coast from 

 Loango Bay to the mouth of the Zaire, proved, as we 

 expected, that it is very erroneously laid down in the most 

 recent charts. The only river between Indian Point and 



