CONTENTS 



PART I 



INTRODUCTION 



PAGE 



The Terrapin — Crew — Itinerary of the Cruise — Daily Routine — Provisions 

 and Supplies — Collecting Apparatus — Guns — Shooting: — Path-making 

 — Clothing — Head-dress — A Scene in the Tropics — Native Indolence 

 — Attractive Memories ...... I 



CHAPTER I 



Barren Island and the Archipelago .... 9 



Shipboard Monotony — Edible Sharks — Calm Nights — Squalls — Barren 

 Island — Appearance — Anchorage — Landing-place — Hot Spring — Goats 

 — The Eruptive Cone — Lava — Paths — Interior of the Crater — Volcanic 

 Activity — Fauna — Fish — The Archipelago — Kwang-tung Strait — Path- 

 making — The Jungle — Birds- — Coral Reefs — Parrots — Two New Rats 

 — Inhabitants. 



CHAPTER II 

 Port Blair . . . . . . .19 



We enter the Harbour — Surveillance — Ross Island Pastimes — Visit the Chief 

 Commissioner — The Harbour— Cellular Jail — Lime-kilns — Phoenix Bay 

 — Hopetown — Murder of Lord Mayo — Chatham Island — Haddo and 

 the Andamanese — Tea Gardens — Viper Island and Jail — The Convicts 

 — Occupations — Punishments — Troops — Departure. 



CHAPTER III 

 Macpherson Strait — South Andaman and Rutland Island 28 



Gunboat Tours — South Andaman — Rutland Island — Navigation — Landing- 

 place — Native Camp — Natives — Jungle — Birds — Appearance of the 

 Natives — Our Guests — Native Women: Decorations and Absurd 

 Appearance — Trials of Photography — The Village — Food — Bows, 

 Arrows, and Utensils — Barter — Coiffure — Fauna — Water — New Species. 

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