PROCKEDINGS OF THE COTTHSWOLD CLUB 30I 



Having seen everything on the Western coast that 

 was possible under the cireumstanees, I made my way by 

 land and water to Kyd Island, which lies on the Eastern 

 coast, and North of Ross. 



A charming walk over a good road early in the morning 

 took me past ferns and orchids, and beautiful trees to 

 Mitha Kari. On my way I passed through a village inhab- 

 ited, I su[)pose, by " self-supporters," and called in at the 

 Telegraph Office to send off a message to one of the 

 officials ; messages must be written in Roman characters, 

 and are sent to any part of the settlement for one anna 

 the message, not by electricity, but by the heliograph, or 

 when the sun does not shine, by flags. Official " wires " 

 go free. 



At Mitha Kari, a boat met me, and landed me on the 

 Northern shore of the inlet, about half-way from the 

 mouth, and then after a walk of six miles, past tea 

 gardens and small farms, I arrived at Goplaka Bang, at the 

 head of a narrow creek, where I found a canoe waiting for 

 me , a wearisome journey was then begun on still water, 

 past thick mangrove growth, under a blazing sun, and 

 right glad was I to feel a httle swell on, betokening the 

 near approach to the open sea. Late in the afternoon I 

 arrived at Kyd Island, or in the native tongue, Dura-tong. 

 These boat , expeditions are almost obligatory, for the 

 jungles are too thick, and the roads too few, to allow of 

 anyone travelling any distance by land. 



At Dura-tong I found an excellent hut, and towards 

 evening, a tribe of Andamanese arrived, having been out 

 turtle fishing. With the tribe was a man, Joseph by name, 

 who had been a servant to an Englishman, and had been 

 to India, where he learnt to talk English very fxiirly, but 

 like many aboriginals of other races, he could not 

 avoid drink, and became a thorough drunkard, as well as 

 a thief; he has therefore been brought back, turned out 

 of the settlement, and now having taken to himself a wife 



