CHAPTER IX 



ANOTHER VISIT TO THE ANDAMANS 



Dredging off the Laccadives : A Mollusk and its Commensals. A 

 Sad Tale of the Sea. Dredging across the Bay : Strange 

 Messengers from the bottom : The Torch-bearers of Pluto. 

 A Second Visit to Great Coco Island : Growth of Coral-reefs : 

 Birth of an Islet : Natural Fish-traps : A remarkable Lizard. 

 Little Coco Island : Raised Coral-beaches : Stis aiidamaniciis .• 

 Voracious Water-lizards : A new-formed Lake. 



It was on the 15th of October, in the year of our 

 Lord 1890, that the Investigator left Bombay on her 

 tenth, and my third, surveying voyage. 



The main features of her programme were to 

 resume the survey of the Coco Islands where it had 

 been left off the year before, and then, when the 

 Coromandel coast should become practicable, to con- 

 tinue the survey of that coast from Bimlipatam as 

 far southwards as possible. The officers with the 

 ship were, Commander R. F. Hoskyn, R.N., com- 

 manding, and Lieutenants Searle, Warden, Mathias, 

 Huddleston, and Kendall, R.I.M., assistant surveyors. 



Between Bombay and Colombo, inside of the 

 Laccadives, we had four hauls of the trawl in depths 



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