214 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



and at the foot of the rise, is a Hne of trees. The southern 

 shore is steep and rocky. 



Horrible face ^yith the leprosy. 



Natives extremely abstemious, a little raw manioc and 

 water and their pipe, for a day : devour all the meat you 

 will give them. 



The wind always from the westward, inclining up the 

 reaches, so that there is always either a free or leading 

 wind ; and 3^et the natives have not the least notion of 

 applying sails to their canoes : indeed the wars of neigh- 

 bouring tribes render the water intercourse as limited as 

 that by land. 



Size of their canoes. 



Their distribution of time consists of a week of four days, 

 or a sona ; the first day of which is named Sona, and on this 

 day they refrain from working in the plantations, under the 

 superstitious notion that the crop would fail ; they however 

 perform any other kind of work. The second day is named 

 Candoo, the third Ocoonga, and the fourth Cainga. The 

 month, or Gonda, is thirty days ; the year, M'Voo, consists 

 of the rainy and dr}^ season, that is to say several Gondas. 



They believe in a good and evil principle, the former 

 they call - -. - ~ - and the latter Codian Penba, both 

 supposed to reside in the sky ; the former, they say, sends 



