INDEX 



571 



Paddles, N., 54 

 Pandanus fruit, N., 246, 252 

 Mode of prepaiinj;, 247 

 Cooking, S.P., 149 

 Pandanus, unpleasant qualities of, 112 



Legend illustrative of, 112 

 Parrots, A., 17; {Pa/eoniis caniccps), N., 



128 

 Passu, cf. Mai, K.N., 303 

 Pathmaking, 15 

 Penal System, the Andamanese, 193-199. 



See also under " Port Blair " 

 Photography, trials of, 32 

 Pig {Sus andamanensis), A., 43 ; {Sus iiico- 

 haricus'), N., 137 

 Mode of preparing, for a feast, 100 

 Processions, N., 251 

 Pigeons, Nicobar, 68, 135 

 Pigeons, fruit {Carpophnga insularis'), N., 



62, 68. 

 Piracy in the Nicobars, account of, 91-94 

 Plantations, N., 49, 64, 71, 105, 132 

 Police surveillance. A., 19 

 Polygamy, N., 238 



Population. See luider names of islands 

 and " Census." 

 Decrease of, N., 76, 97, 149, 150, 

 350 

 Port Blair 

 Ross Island, 19, 20 

 The Government Settlement, 19, 20, 21 



History of, 180, 181, 183 

 Colonel Temple, C.C., at, 21 

 Military force, 27 

 Police surveillance, 19 

 Gunboat tours, 28 

 Communication, 200 

 Temperature, 173 

 Rainfall, 173 

 Government schools, 343 



Gymnasium, 344 

 Amusements, 20 

 The Penal System, 193-9 

 Viper Island, 25, 26 

 Jtiil, a visit to, 26 

 Cellular, 21 



Inhabitants of, 25, 26, 27 

 Employments in, 26, 27 

 Punishment, 27 

 Convicts, 20, 26, 27 



Hospital convalescents, 23 

 The harbour, 19, 21-25 

 Brickfields, 22 

 Lime kilns, 22 

 Phoenix Bay shipyard, 22 

 Mount Harriet, 19, 169 

 Hopetoun, settlement of, 22 

 Chatham Island, sawmills, 23 



Hospital convalescents at, 23 

 Navy Bay tea-gardens, 25 

 Industries, 22, 198, 199, 200, 340, 341 



Port Blair — continued 

 Cultivations, 200 

 Character of the locally-born young 



generation, 344 

 Haddo, Homes for the Andamanese, 23, 



24, 25 

 Andamanese at, 24, 25 

 Appearance, 24 

 Dress, 24 

 Ornaments, 24, 25 

 Skin decorations, 24 

 Coiffure, 24 



Bows and arrows, 24, 25 

 Mode of carrying babies, 24 

 Port Cornwallis, Government Settlement 

 transferred to, 180, 1 81 

 Rendezvous at, in 1824, 1 81 

 Port registers, 75 

 Pots, Chaura, N., 108 

 Nicobarese belief concerning, 107 

 Process of making, 107, 108 

 Pottery, a possible origin of, 219 

 Kiln, Chaura, 108 

 Manufacture, monopoly of, 107 

 Preparis Island, 320 

 Presents, articles found to be in demand 



for, A., N., 352 

 Products, natural, A., 172, 199, 341. >SV^ 

 "Woods " 

 Of commercial value, N., 207, 208 

 Property, N., 240 



Method of guarding, 241 

 Pulo Babi. .S>f " Great Nicobar " 

 Pulo Kunyi. See " Great Nicobar " 

 Pulo Milo, 123 

 Area, 123 

 Village, 123 

 Houses, 123 

 Natives, 123 

 Pulo Njair. See " Great Nicobar " 

 Punishment at Viper Jail, 27 

 System of, N., 230, 238, 241 

 Instances of murder as, K.N., 315 



Oi'ARREI.S, instances of, K.N., 310-312 

 Mode of Revenging, 310 



Rainfall, A., 173 ; N., 206 



Ramal, K.N., 296 



Rats (^Mus atratus\ A., 14. ^SV^ also under 



names of islands and " Mammals " 

 Rattan collecting, N., 219, 220 

 Rhinomvias, N., 122 



River, course of a, Little Nicobar, 125, 

 126 



Dagmar, 149, 153 



Galathea, 161-164 



Jubilee, 138 

 Rivers, Great Nicobar, 142 

 Ross Island. See " Port Blair " 

 Rowing, Chinese, 140 



