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Papers relating to the Aborigines of the Andaman Islands. 
(Communicated bx the Government oe India.) 
From Captain J. C. Haugiiton, Superintendent of Port Blair, to 
W. Geex, Esquire, Secretary to the Government of India, 
No. G7, dated the 10 th January, 1S61. 
In continuation of my letter No. 53, of 11th November, 18G0, 
I have the honor to report our further intercourse with the Abori- 
gines. 
2. On 1 5th December, a party of them came upon some men of 
the Clyde who were getting water at the watering-place, and slightly 
wounded one European sailor. The men went off immediately to 
the ship, a boat was sent to recover some buckets and clothes which 
had been abandoned, an Andamanese swam off to it with the clothes, 
—the buckets had been destroyed for the sake of the hoops. 
3. On the 17th December, a party of convicts cutting bamboos, 
West of Viper Island, was shot at from an ambuscade, and one man 
was wounded by an arrow, but not severely. The Natives were not 
seen, so that the Guard could not use their weapons. 
4. On the 3 1st, the Gangsman at Viper Island seeing some 
Aborigines on the other shore went over to them, and gave them 
some plantains. On 1st January, he went to meet them at 
the same place on their calling out to him, and again gave them 
some plantains. Before parting, they returned the favour with 
a shower of arrows, by one of which a boatman was wounded. He 
has since died of lockjaw. The cause of this hostility the Gangs- 
man attributes to the European Apothecary having come down to 
look on from the opposite shore, and having been seen by them. 
5. On the 3rd January, three of the Aborigines landed on Viper 
Island, and walked all over it. Some plantains were given to them. 
They saw a young pig and attempted to carry it off, but were pre- 
vented. 
6. On 4th January, they again to the number of five persons 
landed on Viper Island, viz., two boys and three men — I happened to 
visit the Island as they were leaving. They had roamed over the 
Island, and had been rather injudiciously allowed to lade themselves 
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