CONTENTS 



CHAPTER IV 



PAGE 



The Cinques and Little Andaman . . . .36 



Position of the Cinques — xA.nchorage — Clear Water — The Forest — Beach 

 Formation — Native Hut — Little Andaman — Bumila Creek — Natives — 

 Flies — Personal Decoration — Dress and Modesty — Coats of Mud — 

 Coiffure — Absence of Scarification — Elephantiasis — A Visit to the Vil- 

 lage — Peculiar Huts — Canoe — Bows and Arrows — The Return Journey 

 — A slight contretemps — Andamanese Pig — We leave the Andamans. 



CHAPTER V 



Kar Nicobar ....... 44 



To the Nicobars — A Tide-race — A Change of Scene — Sawi Bay — Geologi- 

 cal Formation — V. Solomon — Mus Village — Living-houses — Kitchens 

 — Fruit-trees — The Natives — Headman Offandi — "Town-Halls" — 

 Death-house — Maternity Houses — Hospitals — Floods — " Babies' 

 Houses" — Birds — Oil Press — Canoes — Offandi — " Friend of England" 

 — "Frank Thomson" — "Little John" — Thirst for Information — 

 Natives' Nick-names — Mission School Boys' Work — A Truant — The 

 Advantage of Canoes — A Spill— Our Method of Landing — Collecting 

 Native Birds — A New Bat — Coconuts — V. Solomon — The Nicobarese 

 and Christianity — Water — Area of Kar Nicobar — Geology — Flora — 

 Supplies. 



CHAPTER VI 

 Tilanchong ....... 66 



Batti Malv — Tilanchong — Novara Bay — Terrapin Bay — Form and Area of 

 Tilanchong — Birds — Megapodes — A Swamp — Crocodile — Megapode 

 Mound — Wreck and Death of Captain Owen, 1708 — Leave Tilanchong 

 — Foul Ground — Kamorta. 



CHAPTER VII 

 Trinkat ........ 73 



Beresford Channel— A Deserted Village— /-4^^/— Bird Life— Wild Cattle- 

 Scenery — Photographs — Port Registers — Tanamara — Population — 

 Customs — The Shorn Pen — The Sequel to a Death — Interior of the 

 Houses. 



CHAPTER VIII 

 Nankauri ........ 78 



The Harbour Shores — A Village — Aawaw— Canoe — Feeding the Animals — 

 Collecting-ground — Mangrove Creeks — Preparations for a Festival — 

 Burial Customs — Malacca Village — Houses — Visit Tanamara — P'urni- 

 ture — Talismans and "Scare-devils" — Beliefs — Festivities — A Dance — 

 An Educated Native — Tanamara and his Relations — Cigarettes — 

 Refreshments — The Collections — Geology — Flora — Population — 

 Piracy. 



