66 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



assured us that he had been on the bank in question, with 

 Mr. Maxwell, and that it lies within a short distance of the 

 shore, and nearer to IVIalemba than Cabenda. 



Havina: weighed with a tolerable sea breeze, we were 

 enabled to stand along shore until eight in the evening, 

 when being in 8 fathoms, the anchor was let go, and the 

 current was found running N.N.AV. 1| mile an hour ; an 

 officer being sent in shore to sound, reported that the 

 water shoaled very gradually to three fathoms within half 

 a mile of the shore, near to Avhich is a lengthened reef, 

 with the sea breaking violently, but which seems to shelter 

 the beach within it, and thereby affords landing to boats. 



The coast from 4° 50' is moderately elevated, forming 

 reddish gray cliffs, similar to those near Loango bay ; 

 until past Cabenda, when the coast descends to low land 

 covered with wood, (apparently the mangrove) and our 

 view this day terminated on the Red Point of the charts, 

 (Chabaroca point of the natives) which the}^ informed us 

 was the entrance of a little river. 



