Native Villages. — Boat Accident. 75 



woods, In small huts erected upon the banks of the streams, 

 and were so timid that they took to flight so soon as any one 

 endeavoured to approach them. He also told us that in the 

 S. and S. W. sides of Sambelong there were eleven villages : 

 viz. Hinkoata, Changanhei, Hinhaha, Haengangloeh, Kanalla, 

 Taeingha, Dayak, Kanchingtong, Dagoak, Hinlawua, and 

 Kalemma. 



In the course of the day, not onl}^ was a highly successful 

 onslaught made on the denizens of the woodland, but even 

 the fishes in bay were not exempted from our attentions ; — 

 a net, which was flung over the side and retained there barely 

 half an hour, being hauled ashore with upwards of a hundred 

 weight of small fish. Of this the entire ship's company par- 

 took, and sufficient was left over for the next day. Our quarry 

 in the swamps and forest consisted of snipes, of a splendidly 

 plumed Maina bird {^Gr acuta Indica), eagles, and apes; un- 

 fortunately a number of the animals shot were lost by their 

 retreating into the thicket, where they could not be recovered. 



On the morning of the 23rd of March the frigate again 

 made sail and steered along the west coast of Great Nicobar, 

 while two boats' crews were despatched with the requisite 

 instruments to examine this quite unexplored coast. This 

 plan, however, proved only half successful. The tremendous 

 surf, into which the long swell setting in fi'om the S.W. 

 is broken hereabouts, hurled the larger boat upon the beach 

 with such violence that it was capsized, by which a great por- 

 tion of her fireight was utterly lost, and her crew could only 



