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I.F.ssER Anda- 

 man. 



Carn Nico- 



BAR. 



Bakvssm, ins. 

 Anthropoph. 



NlCOBAR 



Islands. 



SiNDj;:, INS, 

 Anthroi'oph. 



INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



men moft favage ,in their appearance, quite black, and vvitb 

 woolly hair like the Jfrican Caffres\ their nofes not fo flat, for 

 in feature they rcfcmble the Malays \ they go naked, have 

 canoes, and ufe one end of their paddle as a bow to flioot 

 with. 



At a ereatdiftance from the eaftern fide are the Barren Iflc, 

 and the ifle of Narcondray a vail mountain rifi ng out of the 

 fin, a land-mark from which fliips take their departure. 



About twelve leagues due fouth from the greater, is the 

 Iclfer Andaman, in length twenty-fix miles, a place knowii^ 

 only by name. 



Carn Nicobar^i^ a flat ifland a hundred miles to the fouth of the^ 



leiTer Andaman, nearly five miles broad, and very fertile in all th& 



tropical fruits, rich in grafs, and has plenty of cattle and hogs. 



This ifland f urniflies Pegu with abundance of coco nuts, whicb 



are carried there by the Englifb, French, and Portuguefe. The 



Nicobar ifles extend, at no great diftances from each other, to the 



• fouth, with an inclination to the eaft. The middle group con- 



flfts of fine champaign land;, and is called the Sombrera, from the 



refemblance of a hill on one of them to a fombrera or umbrella. 



CarnNicobar, lies in Lat. 9°io', the fouthern point of the greateft 



Nicobar, the more fouthern of the feries, is in Lat. 6° 51'; this 



and the adjacent ifles are mountanous. This group was called 



by Ptolemy, Infulce Sind^e, and the Sombrera Barujfa ; we are 



made tolerably well acquainted with thefe iflands by means 



of Dampier, who on difcovering the piratical defigns of his 



captain, one Read, prevaled to be fet on fliore, and with 



two or three Acbeneje, who were landed after him, re- 



fuled 



