210 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



At six P. M., after having rounded a rocky peninsula^ 

 we anchored in a fine bay named Covinda, formed by this 

 and another rocky peninsula a little higher up. The night 

 presented a beautiful picture of repose ; fine scenery, the 

 moon, the stillness of the water. AlHgators most abundant. 

 Sept. 7th. The morn.ing set in with light rain. Here 

 we observed the river to have risen three inches in the 

 night, the total or highest rise by the rocks sixteen inches. 



Some women brought us a large quantity of lime. Bought 

 a goat for two and a half fathoms of chintz. The people 

 very civil. Set off at eight A.M., rounded the marble 

 peninsula, and opened out beautiful scenery, equal to any 

 thing on the banks of the Thames ; the bare stone rock in 

 many places resembled ruined castles over-hanging the 

 river ; several fine grassy coves. Purchased a large bunch 

 of plaintains for 1^ fathoms. 



The teeth of both men and Avomen were notched thus, 

 1*JWW . Saw a large flock of ducks, the precursors 

 of rain. 



Many marble promontories now jutted out on this side, 

 round some of which the current sets three miles and half 

 an hour. As it is necessary to take a long circuit round the 

 bays by land, I hired another canoe where we stopped to 

 dine at one o'clock, for four fathoms, to carry the rest of 



