xii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIV 



PAOB 



Great Nicobar — West and South Coasts . . .154 



"Domeat" — Malay Traders — Trade Prices — The Shorn Pen Language — 

 Place Names — Pulo Babi — The Growth of Land — Climbing a Palm 

 Tree — Servitude — Population — Vie\\s on Marriage with the Aborigines 

 — Towards the Interior — A Shorn Pen Village — The Inhabitants — 

 Canoe-building — Barter — The West Coast — South Bay — Walker Island 

 — Chang-ngeh — Up the Galathea River — Water — 'We leave the Nice- 

 bars and sail to Sumatra. 



PART II 



CHAPTER I 



The Andaman Islands and their Inhabitants . . 167 



Position — Soundings — Relationship — Islands — Area — Great Andaman 

 Mountains — Little Andaman — Rivers — Coral Banks — Scenery — Har- 

 bours — Timber — Flora — Climate — Cyclones — Geology — Minerals — 

 Subsidence — Earthquakes — History — Aborigines — Convicts and the 

 Penal System — Growth and Resources of the Settlement — Products and 

 Manufactures. 



CHAPTER II 

 The Nicobar Islands and their Aborigines . . . 201 



The Nicobar Islands and their Aborigines — The Islands — Coral Banks — 

 Nankauri Harbour — Population — Geology — Earthquakes — Climate — 

 Flora — History — The Shorn Pen: their Derivation, Appearance, 

 Houses, Gardens, Cooking-vessel, Domestic Animals, Manufactures, 

 Trade, Clothing, Headmen, Position of Women, Disposition, Diseases. 



CHAPTER III 



The Nicobarese . . . . . . .221 



The Evolution of the Nicobarese — Description — Character — Language — 

 Legends of Origin — Origin of Coco Palms — Invention of Punishments 

 Superstitious Beliefs — Diseases — Medicines — Marriage — Matriarchal 

 Syf tem — Divorce — Polygamy — Courtship — Property — Takoia — 

 Headmen — Social Slate — Position of Women and Children — Domestic 

 Animals — Weapons — Tools — Fishing — Turtle — Food — Beverages- 

 Narcotics and Stimulants — Cleanliness — Clothing — Ornaments — Coif- 

 fure — Amusements — Arts and Industries — Cultivation — Produce — 

 Traders and Commerce. 



CHAPTER IV 



Dampier's Sojourn in Great Nicobar, and Voyage thence 



to Acheen in a Canoe ..... 254 



