Attempted Colonization by Denmark. 1 1 



utter destitution, and Micliaud, in his Biographie Universelle, 

 dedicated an article to this hardy and enterprising, rather 

 than shrewd and prudent, adventurer.* 



About two years after the appearance of the Austrian ship 

 in the Nicobar Ai'chipelago, the Danes endeavoured to found 

 there a missionary station of Moravian Brothers. Towards 

 the close of 1778 the missionaries, Hansel and Wangemann, 

 sailed from Tranquebar to Nangkauri, where they arrived in 

 January, 1779. In 1787 the mission at Nangkauri was once 

 more abandoned, when the only surviving Moravian Brother 

 retm-ned to Tranquebar, and shortly after to Europe. 



In 1795 an Englishman, Major S^nnes, touched at Kar- 

 Nicobar, while on his voyage as Envoy to Ava and Burmah. 

 His observations there may be found in the second volume of 

 '^ Asiatic Researches," p. 344, in an article entitled " Descrip- 

 tion of Carnicobar." 



In 1831, Denmark once more made an attempt to colonize, 

 by means of a missionary enterprise, the group formerly 

 knoAvn as New Denmark, and occasionally as Frederick Is- 

 lands. Pastor Rosen landed in August of that year on the 



advocated the annexation, settlement, and reclamation of the Nicobar Islands, and, on 

 the strength of fifteen years' experience in the East Indies, promised immense profits 

 to the Austrian-German trade by this method of procedm-e. This interesting treatise 

 will be found among the Government Archives at Vienna, and will be published in full 

 in another section. 



. * Bolts had several times come before the public as an author. In 1771 he issued 

 in London a work in two volumes 4to, entitled, " Considerations on Indian Affairs," 

 which was also translated into French. Further, he published a " Reciieil des pieces 

 authentiques relatives aux affaires de la ci-devant societe Lnperiale-Asiatique de Trieste, 

 gerees a Anvers,'' which appeared in 4to (1 16 pages) at Paris, in I7S7. 



