CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 65 



Cabenda is the Loango-Louise, and is that marked in the 

 charts by the name of Kacongo, being by our observations 

 when at anchor nearly opposite to it, 5° 17'- Its opening is 

 between two high lands, and appears to be wide and clear. 

 The country is divided into petty sovereignties, tributary 

 to the king of Loango ; the northernmost of these states, 

 after passing Laongo bay, is named Boal, to which suc- 

 ceeds Makongo, of which Malemba is the port ; then that 

 of N'Goy, whose port is Cabenda, and which extends 

 along the north side of the entrance of the river Congo. 

 The king of Makongo, or Malemba, resides inland at a town 

 named Chingele (evidently the Kinhele of the charts,) but 

 which is jiot situated on a river. From our visitors I pro- 

 cured a vocabulary of their language ; they all speaking 

 English to be perfecth' understood, and several of them 

 French still more correctly. 



While at anchor this day, I sent two boats in shore to 

 look for the bank of Bele, said by Grand Pre to be situated 

 south-west of Malemba, and which, according to him, 

 shoals suddenly from seven fathoms. The boats, however, 

 could not find any bank, but on the contrary, the Avater 

 shoaled very regularly from where the ship was anchored 

 in 15 fathoms to 5 fathoms within about three miles of the 

 shore, all soft muddy bottom. One of the natives on board 



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