126 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



Thej have no other manner of reckoning or keeping an 

 account of time than by moons ; so that beyond half a 

 dozen moons not one of them can tell the lapse of time 

 since any event may have happened. The day they divide 

 into morning or breakfast, noon or grand time, and evening 

 or supper. The sea breeze was insufficient to bring the 

 Congo up either this day or the 4lh. 



August 4. This forenoon I landed on the main land 

 opposite Booka Embomma, and found it composed of 

 very rugged hills, chiefly granite, with very little wood. An 

 Adansonia here measured 42 feet in girth at the ground^ 

 and carried nearly the same circumference to the height of 

 30 feet. Where the boat anchored we found a regular tide, 

 the rise and fall being 13 inches, and the current little or 

 nothino- during the rise. 



August 5. Got the Congo up to a good anchorage on 

 the south shore, opposite Chesalla island, where, finding we 

 should be much retarded by persevering in the attempt to- 

 get higher, from the precariousness of the sea breezes, I 

 ordered her to be moored, and directed Mr. Ej^e, the 

 purser, to remain in charge of her ; together with the sm- 

 geon, a master's mate, and 15 men. 



