CONTENTS xi 



CHAPTER IX 



PAGE 



Kamorta .....••• 95 



TheOldSettlement— The Cemetery— F.H.deR(Jepstorff— Mortality— Birds 

 — The Harbour— Appearance of Kamorla— Dring Harbour — Olta-moit 

 —Buffalo— Spirit Traffic—Cookery— Ceremonial Dress— A Visit from 

 Tanamara — Geology — Flora — Topography — Population — Hamilton's 

 Description. 



CHAPTER X 

 Kachal and Other Islands . . • • .103 



Heavy Surf— Teressa — Bompoka— A Native Legend — Hamilton— Chaura 

 — Wizardry— Pottery— Kachal typical of the Tropics— Nicobarese 

 Dress — West Bay— Lagoon— Mangroves— Whimbrel— Formation of 

 Kachal— Birds — Visitors to the Schooner — Fever— Chinese Junks — 

 Thatch — Relics — The Reef— Megapodes— Monkeys — Full-dressed 

 Natives — Medicine — A Death Ceremony — Talismans — Fish and Fish- 

 ing — Geology. 



CHAPTER XI 

 Little Nicobar and Pulo Milo . . • .118 



A Tide-rip— Islets— A Cetacean— Pulo Milo— Timidity of the Natives- 

 Little Nicobar — Geology — Flora — Population — Site for a Colony — 

 Jungle Life— Banian Trees— The Houses and their Peculiarity— The 

 Natives— Practices and Beliefs— The Shom Pen— The Harbour— We 

 ascend a River — Kingfishers— Water— Caves— Bats and Swallows — 

 Nests— A Jungle Path— Menchal Island— Collections— Monkeys- 

 Crabs. 



CHAPTER XII 



KONDUL AND GrEAT NiCOBAR . . • • • l^I 



The Anchorage— The Island— Villages— We leave Kondul— Great Nicobar 

 —Anchorage— Collecting— Up the Creek— A Bat Camp— Young Bats 

 —Traces of the Shom Pen— Bird Life— Fish— Ganges Harbour— Land 

 Subsidence — Tupais — We Explore the Harbour — A Jungle Pig — 

 " Jubilee '■ River — Chinese Navigation— Rainy W^eather— Kondul Boys 

 — Coconuts — Chinese Rowing. 



CHAPTER Xni 

 Great Nicobar — West Coast . . . . -141 



Pulo Kunyi — Area of Great Nicobar — Mountains — Rivers — The Village — 

 The Shom Pen — Casuarina Bay — An Ingenious "Dog-hobble" — In 

 the Jungle— A Shom Pen Village— Men of the Shom Pen— A Lazy 

 Morning — The Shom Pen again — Their Similarity to the Nicobarese — 

 Food — Implements — Cooking-vessel — The Dagmar River — Casuarina 

 Bay — Pulo Nyur — Water — A Boat Expedition — The Alexandra River 

 — §hom Pen \'illages — Kopenht-at — More Shom Pen — Elephantiasis — 

 Pet^Monkeys — Anchorage. 



