sdo 



On the Nicobar Isles, and 



Henpojou, 

 Cherdcha 



Para - 



lhanula 



Chair, Chunla - - - Red, 



Table, Unat - - White, 



Dollar, or Silver, Cambalamagn - Striped Cloth. 

 Black, 



N U M £ R A 



S. 



Mean - 



- 



One, 



Eancata ..-..-*- 



Nine, 



ifci - - - 



- 



Two, 



Sicom - 



Ten, 



jlotf - - 



• 



Three, 



Sicom hean - 



Eleven,. 



fTb^/f -..•••_- 



- 



Four, 



Sicom baa 



Twelve, 



?4/r& - 



- 



Five, 



Hemom thouma » 



Twenty, 



Tafoul - - 



- 



Six, 



Rocate - 



Thirty, 



«U - - - 



- 



Seven, 



Toanmoan tbiuma- 



Forty, 



ILnfoan - 



- 



Eight, 



Sicom ficom - 



Hundred 



It feems that they have no expreffion for the numbers beyond forty, ex- 

 cept by multiplication. 



Trees of great height and fize are to be feen in their woods of a com- 

 pact texture, well calculated for naval conftructions : * but the productions, 

 of which they are more particularly careful, are the cocoa and areca trees, 

 the lair, being chiefly for their own confumption ■;' as they chew it all day 

 long with tobacco, betel-leaf, and {hell -lime : the former is not only ufeful 

 for their own, and their hogs 1 , nourifhment, but alfo an object, of trade. 

 Moil of the country fhips, that are bound to Pegu from either of the coafls 



* Onz of'thefe trees our peop'e cut down, fihat meafured nine fathoms in circumference or 

 fifty-faprfeet. 



