£24 CAPTAIN TUCKEY'S NARRATIVE. 



Hypothesis confirmed. The water . 



Mistaken idea of anchoring ships out of the current for 

 any length of time ; the current always creating a cur- 

 rent of air. 



Palm wine in the dry season only. Palm trees, when two 

 years old, begin to give out wine. 



Sept. 18 Reached the transport; found her people all in 

 health; her decks crowded with goats, fowls, pigeons, pump- 

 kins„ plantains, flaskets of palm wine ; in short, the greatest 

 appearance of abundance. 



The difference of atmosphere perceptible between this 

 place and Embomma. Fresh sea breezes. 

 Mangrove trees fit for ? 



No fish but cat-fish. Few hippopotami below Yellala. 

 Quartz sand in vast quantities on the banks of the river ; 

 must come from a great distance, 



Maucaya child, child-birth. 



Different foods fetished. Children fetished for eating the 

 food which their fathers had been forbidden to eat. 

 Women fetished for eating meat the same day that it is kil- 

 led — with the men. When a man apjilies to a Gangam for a 

 domestic fetish, he is at the same time instructed from what 

 foods he must abstain ; some from fowls, others from 

 plantains. 



