48 Notice of Little Andaman Island., Bay of' Bengal. 



Tired with our unprofitable excursion, we returned to the 

 watering pool, and the casks having been rolled up to it, we sat 

 down to dinner before we commenced filling. Whilst engaged 

 with our repast a strong party of the natives came down upon 

 us, and threw in a shower of arrows, which killed one and 

 wounded severely three of the soldiers. We quickly formed, 

 charged them, and killed and wounded several by our fire, and 

 continued skirmishing with them till sunset ; for they seemed 

 to be exceedingly cunning and revengeful, and made some des- 

 perate attempts to cut off the pioneers engaged in filHng. Af- 

 ter they had completed the watering, we pulled off from Kellie 

 Bay for the ship, with the four boats ; but a current at that 

 time setting to the N.E. at the rate of 3 or 4 knots an hour, 

 we found that we could not reach her. The water-boats were 

 anchored in consequence, and the two others went alongside. 

 The ship's anchor was weighed, and dropping down to the long- 

 boat and cutter, brought up in 13 fathoms water, and by mid- 

 night got on board, laden with bows, arrows, specimens of am- 

 bergris, shells, &c. 



\^th November. — During the night heard the savages shout- 

 ing and yelhng on the beach, seemingly in defiance. At day- 

 light weighed, and stood through Duncan''s Great Passage. At 

 10. A. M. got on a coral reef, not laid down in any chart ; least 

 water 5 fathoms, with the following bearings : North end of the 

 Little Andaman S.S.E. ; the N.W. point S.W. by S. ; the 

 centre of the South Brother S. E. by E. § E., distant 4 miles ; 

 and the centre of the North Brother E. I N. Both these 

 islands, like the Little Andaman, are flat, and covered with high 

 trees, without a rising ground of any sort on them. Kept away 

 to the northward, and got twelve fathoms all the way between 

 the South Brother and Sisters, and in a few days arrived safely 

 at Rangoon. 



Prome, Birman Em 

 l&th December 18?5 



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