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IN THE NICOBAR ISLANDS. 



N the year 1756 a commercial establish- 

 ment was begun by the Danes on the 

 Nicobar Islands ; and shortly after a band 

 of devoted missionaries belonging to the 

 Church of the United Brethren settled there, for 

 the purpose of endeavouring to convert the natives 

 to the Christian faith. Among these heroic men 

 was one named John Gottfried Haensel, who during 

 seven years remained at his post until he was the 

 sole survivor, and was compelled to abandon that 

 melancholy field of labour which had proved fatal 

 to all his associates, who had found an untimely 

 grave in Nancauwery, the island on which they 

 had resided. 



In a series of curious arid valuable letters Haensel 

 has described this group, with their inhabitants 

 and natural productions; and in his account of the 



