the Fruit of the Mellori. 357 



the green parrot, or parroquet, with a black bill and collar : no other 

 •birds are to be found in them. 



The climate is pure, and might, with little trouble, be rendered very 

 falubrious : conftant lea-breezes fin their mores, thus preferving them from 

 ©ppreflive heat : vegetation continues without intermifiion, the woods are 

 very thick, and the trees bound together by a kind of twig or creeping 

 fhrub, that renders them almofr, impervious. 



The Nicobar dance is as dull and inanimate as can be conceived, as well 

 for theflownefs and heavinefs of its motion?, as fur the plaintive monoto- 

 nous tune that accompanies it : with no inurnment but their mournful low 

 voices, which are in perfect unifon with the motion of their bodies. Men and 

 women form a circle, by putting their hand on each others moulders : they 

 move ilowly, backwards and forwards, inclining, fometimes to the right, 

 and fometimes to the left. 



The whole of their rnufic confifts of the few following notes. 



The bails of thelanguage fpoken by thefe iflanders, is chiefly Ma/ay,wiih 

 fome words borrowed from Europeans, and other ftrangers, as will appear 

 by the following fpecimen : 



Chia - - - 



- Father, 



Ochid - 



- Uncle 



Cioum 



- Grand Father, 



Encognee - 



- Man, 



Cbia Enchana 



- Mother, 



Covon - - - 



- Son, 



