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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER IV 

 A NOVICE IN THE ANDAMANS 



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Introduction to the Andamans and to the Investigator. The Coral- 

 reefs of Port Blair Harbour. Initiation into the Complete Art of 

 Deep-sea Dredging. The Wonders of the Tow-net. A Political 

 Venture to Little Andaman Island. The Coco Islands . . 45 



CHAPTER V 



ON THE ORISSA COAST 



At False Point. A Melancholy Shore. A Holy Land : the Temples 

 of Jaganath and Kanarak. The Chilka Lake. A Deserted 

 Village. Surf Boats and Surf Boatmen. Strange Jelly-fishes and 

 Zoophytes. Messmates of the Sea. The Concert of the Sea : 

 Musical Crabs and Fishes. Courtship among Fishes. Mothers 

 and Mother's milk among Fishes. Lancelets. Scientific and 

 Economic Possibilities of the Orissa Coast . . .58 



CHAPTER VI 

 SUMMER ISLANDS AND A SUMMER SEA 



The Sacramento Shoal. Ingens aquor : the Fauna of the Flotsam : 

 Chameleon Fishes : a Mother Shark and her Young. Station 

 55 : Deep-sea Crustacea. The Western Barrier Reef of the 

 Andamans. The Middle Strait : Through Virgin Jungle in a 

 Ship. The East Andaman Archipelago : Land-crabs and 

 Strand-crabs : Shore-going Fishes. Station 56. The Robber- 

 crab of South Sentinel Island: "A very good and restorative 

 Meat." Precocious Orphans : A New-born Family of Turtles. 

 Recrossing the Bay. First Introduction to the Laccadives. 

 Robber-crabs as Fellow-passengers. The End of the Term : 

 Dulce Museum ....... 73 



