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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... rowed ashore the moment it grew at all light . The next five hours were passed collecting in the jungle ; and then returning on board , after a bath , change , and breakfast , the preservation of specimens went on until two o'clock ...
... rowed ashore the moment it grew at all light . The next five hours were passed collecting in the jungle ; and then returning on board , after a bath , change , and breakfast , the preservation of specimens went on until two o'clock ...
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... rowed off to reconnoitre the gap , which is the only practicable landing - place ; everywhere else the land slopes steeply to the sea . To the south a heavy swell was breaking on the shore , but in the little cove formed here the sea ...
... rowed off to reconnoitre the gap , which is the only practicable landing - place ; everywhere else the land slopes steeply to the sea . To the south a heavy swell was breaking on the shore , but in the little cove formed here the sea ...
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... 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 beach and commenced waving a flag on the end of.
... 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 beach and commenced waving a flag on the end of.
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... rowed off with three oars , and reached the schooner about 7.30 P.M. Next morning , on landing to shoot , we found the little con- tretemps of the night before entirely ignored , for a party of natives was waiting for us at the creek ...
... rowed off with three oars , and reached the schooner about 7.30 P.M. Next morning , on landing to shoot , we found the little con- tretemps of the night before entirely ignored , for a party of natives was waiting for us at the creek ...
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... rowed round the bay, looking for kingfishers. The boat was paddled up all the creeks in the thick belt of mangroves that fringe the shores, but there was no sign of the bird we were after — the large stork-billed Pelargopsis — and we ...
... rowed round the bay, looking for kingfishers. The boat was paddled up all the creeks in the thick belt of mangroves that fringe the shores, but there was no sign of the bird we were after — the large stork-billed Pelargopsis — and we ...
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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