In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin", with Notices of the Islands, Their Fauna, Ethnology, EtcJ. Murray, 1903 - 373 pages |
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... Morning - The Shom Pen again - Their Similarity to the Nicobarese- Food - Implements - Cooking - vessel - The Dagmar River - Casuarina Bay - Pulo Nyur - Water - A Boat Expedition - The Alexandra River -Shom Pen Villages - Kópenhéat ...
... Morning - The Shom Pen again - Their Similarity to the Nicobarese- Food - Implements - Cooking - vessel - The Dagmar River - Casuarina Bay - Pulo Nyur - Water - A Boat Expedition - The Alexandra River -Shom Pen Villages - Kópenhéat ...
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... morning Barren Island had risen above the horizon . These two little islands , eastern outliers of the Andamans , and connecting links between the eruptive regions of Burma and Sumatra , are both of volcanic origin , though the former ...
... morning Barren Island had risen above the horizon . These two little islands , eastern outliers of the Andamans , and connecting links between the eruptive regions of Burma and Sumatra , are both of volcanic origin , though the former ...
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... morning on the Chief Commissioner , and to him we are indebted for much information that became valuable in the next few months . Colonel Temple , who takes much interest in the natives of his district , particularly from a philological ...
... morning on the Chief Commissioner , and to him we are indebted for much information that became valuable in the next few months . Colonel Temple , who takes much interest in the natives of his district , particularly from a philological ...
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... morning to make the most of a light breeze , we sailed slowly along the coast of South Andaman , until , rounding the point of the south - east corner , we came to anchor in Macpherson Strait . Just outside the port we met the R.I.M.S. ...
... morning to make the most of a light breeze , we sailed slowly along the coast of South Andaman , until , rounding the point of the south - east corner , we came to anchor in Macpherson Strait . Just outside the port we met the R.I.M.S. ...
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... morning , while Abbott in the dinghy went north to make the round of the traps , I , with a crew in the whaleboat , rowed across the strait , and when we were within two or three hundred yards of the shore , a tall native ran down the ...
... morning , while Abbott in the dinghy went north to make the round of the traps , I , with a crew in the whaleboat , rowed across the strait , and when we were within two or three hundred yards of the shore , a tall native ran down the ...
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aborigines amongst anchored Andaman and Nicobar Andamanese appearance Arakan Archipelago ashore Asiatic bamboo Beach forest birds boat Burmese canoe Captain ceremony Chaura Chinese cloth coast coco palms coconuts colour convict coral cotton covered crew dancing Elpanam face fathoms feast feet fish Friend of England fruit Galathea head headman houses Hume inches Indian inhabitants interior Jarawas jungle Kachal Kamorta Kar Nicobar Kondul land latter Linn Little Andaman Little Nicobar mafai Malacca Malay Malayan mangroves megapode miles monsoon Mūs Nancowry Nankauri Harbour natives Nicobar Islands Nicobarese night obtained Öngés palm leaves pandanus pigs Port Blair possess Pulo Milo rattan reef round rowed Rutland Island sail schooner seemed Settlement ship Shom Pen shore side spears species specimens spirits Sumatra tamiluanas Tanamara Teressa Terrapin Tilanchong trade trees Trinkat vessel village voyage wind women wood yards نے