144 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



succeed in passing ZoongaTooley CalaAangoo, and anchored 

 on the opposite shore ; but a very strong sea breeze spring- 

 ing up in the evening she joined me. 



In the afternoon I went on shore and ascended the highest 

 bills under which we were anchored, and whose elevation 

 might be 500 feet. From hence our upward vicAv of the 

 river was confined to a single short reach, the appearance 

 of which, however, was sufficient to convince us, that there 

 ^was little prospect of being able to get the double boats up 

 much fardier, and none at all of being able to transport 

 them by land. Both sides of the river appeared to be lined 

 by rocks above water, and the middle obstructed by whirl- 

 pools, whose noise we heard in a constant roar, just where 

 our view terminated by the closing in of the points. High 

 breakers seemed to cross the river ; and this place we learnt 

 was called Casan Yellala, or Yellala's wife, and were told 

 that no canoe ever attempted to pass it. The most distant 

 hill, whose summit appeared above the rest at the distance 

 of perhaps 7 or 8 leagues, we found was that of Yellala. 

 The appearance of the river here Avas compared by 

 Dr. Smith to the torrent rivers of Norway, and particularly 

 the Glommen, the hills on each side being high, precipitous 

 towards the river, totally barren, and separated by such deep 

 ravines as to preclude the idea of conveying even a canoe 



