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INDEX 



Cinques, the — continued 



Anchorage, 36 



Beach formation, 37 



Effect of S.W. monsoon, 37 



Native camp, 37 



Hut, 37 

 Civilisation, effects of contact with, A., 1 92 

 Cleanliness. N., 248 

 Climate, A.. 173 ; N., 205, 206 

 Cloth, Shorn Pen, 145, 146, 219 

 Coal, N., 204 

 Cockuil, a new, 89 

 Coconut oil, mode of extracting, 52 



Toddy, 247 

 Coconuts, mode of obtaining, 139 



Carrying, 139 



Opening, 63 

 Coco palms, legendary origin of, N., 230 



Peculiarity of, N., 128 



Absence of, in Andamans, 172 

 Cocos IslanJs, 172 



History of an attempt at colonisation, 

 iSr, 182 

 Coiffure. See under names of islands 

 Colonel Temple, CO., at Port Blair, A., 21 

 Commercial occupations, K.N., 318, 319 

 Communication with Andamans, 200 

 Communication and transport, local, N., 



253 

 Convict Settlement on Kamorta, traces of 



the old, N., 95 

 Convicts. See " Port Blair " and '' The 



Andamanese Penal System " 

 Cooking-vessel, Shom Pen, 148, 219 



A possible orioin of pottery, 219 

 Coral, N., 80 



Banks, A, 170 ; N., 201 



Reefs. 16 

 Courtship, N., 238-240 

 Crabs, A., 14 ; N., 55, 62, 70, 129 

 Crater, interior of the, Barren Island, 



12, 13 

 Creeks, mangrove, N., 80 

 Crocodile, N„ 69 

 Crossbow accidents, K,N., 317 

 Crows, A„ 17 



Cuckoo {Centropus andamatiensis). A., 16 

 Cultivations. See under names of islands 

 Customs. See under names of islands 

 Cyclones, A., 174 ; N., 2c6 



Dagmak River, N., 149, 153 

 Dalrymy)le Bank, 170 

 Dampier's sojourn on Great Nicobar. 212 

 Dampier's voyage from Great Nicobar to 



Acheen in a canoe, 254 

 Dampier's " Wiyages," extract concerning 



his escape from the privateer Cygnet of 



London, 255, 256, 260-262 

 Concerning his sojourn in Great Nicobar, 

 263-267 



Dampier's " Voyages "' — continued 



Concerning his voyage from Great 

 Nicobar to Acheen, 267-275 



Concerning the Nicobars and inhabi- 

 tants generall}', 256, 257 



Concerning Great Nicobar and inhabi- 

 tants, 257-267 

 Dance music, N., 87 

 Dances, Nan kauri, 87 



Kar Nicobar, 289, 309 

 Dead, converse with the, K.N., 296 

 Death Ceremony, Kachal, 1 16 



Similar Malay custom, 116 



Among the Arafuras, 304 

 De Roepstorff, F. H., murder of, 96 

 Denshi, of. Hentd, N., 1 16 

 "De\il expelling," N., 64 

 '■Devil-expelling" leaves, 303 

 " Devils, scare-," N., 83, 85, 124 

 Dialects. See " Language " 

 Diseases. A., 40, 187 ; N., 159, 235 ; S.P., 



145, 152, 220 

 Disinterment customs, N., 51. See " Ex- 



htmiation " 

 Dislike to strangers, K.N., 317 

 Divorce, N., 237 

 Dog-hobble, S.P., 144 

 Domeat, 154 

 Domestic animals, N., 219, 243 ; S.P., 219 



Feeding, 79 

 Domestic pigeons, K.N., 47 

 Door mats, Chaura, 106 

 Drainage, Great Andaman, 169 

 Dress. Se^ under names of islands 

 Dring Harbour, N., 98 

 Drongo, black racquet- tailed (/)wx^>«aW'/i?j 



andamanensis). A., 30 

 Duncan Passage, the, A., 36 



Earthquakes, A., 176 ; N., 205 



Felt at Kar Nicobar, 205 

 Eclipses, belief concerning, N., 307 



Custom during, 307 

 Education, effects of, on Andamanese, 187 ; 



on Nicobarese, 57, 59, 89 

 Eggs, megapodes', N., 70 

 Electro-plate possessed by Nicobarese, 81 



Prices given for, 81 

 Elevation, possible result of, N., 73 

 Elpanam, N ., 50, 240 

 Elton, Captain, drowned at Trinkat, 



Sambelong, 154 

 Empress Peak, 120 

 Enwan-ng^i, K.N., 295 

 Eruptive cone on Barren Island, 12 

 Expedition Harbour, 98 



Reputed headquarters of piratical savages, 

 98 

 Exhumation ceremonies, account of, N., 82, 



83. See " Disinterment " 

 Exports, A., 199, 339, 34° 



