1^ CAI*1\4IN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



Ausjust 26. AVhile Lieutenant Hawkey wns gone to 

 Cooloo to bring up the luggage, I visited the river from 

 Inga, being about a mile distant. The reach here runs 

 east and west for three or four miles, and in that dis- 

 tance had three successive falls, the highest Songa Yellala. 

 On my return I found a present of four chickens from the 

 blind Chenoo, with a request that I would give him four 

 fathoms of baft in return ; but as I deemed half that quan- 

 tity to be four times the value of his present. I sent him two 

 fathoms, which Avere soon after brought back to me, Avith 

 a violent complaint thati had given four fathoms each to the 

 Mambok and JMacanga, and that the king expected the 

 same ; as the former was however an exaction before I could 

 procure guides, I did not think it necessary to comply Avith 

 the Chenoo's demand, but taking back the two fathoms 

 sent him nothing, and in a very short time another mes- 

 sage came from him requesting he might have the tAvo 

 fathoms, Avhich I again delivered to be given to him. 



A gangam kissey passed through the banza attended 

 by his clerk or drum-beater, Avith all the instruments of his 

 profession, viz. a big drum, a parcel of calabashes filled 

 A*ith small stones, a piece of tree, and a dozen stinking 

 fetiches. We found that he had been sent for to a neigh- 

 bouring village to discover the cause of a man's death. 



