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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... and 6 , Wooden Fishing Spears . 7 , Orna- mental Canoe Stern - piece , " Misoka ap ” ( Kar Nicobar ) . 8 , 9 , and 10 , Iron Fishing Spears 244 IN THE ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS PART I INTRODUCTION The Terrapin xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
... and 6 , Wooden Fishing Spears . 7 , Orna- mental Canoe Stern - piece , " Misoka ap ” ( Kar Nicobar ) . 8 , 9 , and 10 , Iron Fishing Spears 244 IN THE ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS PART I INTRODUCTION The Terrapin xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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... piece of salt junk will admit that these and mustard are almost absolute necessities - sauces , etc. , the fewer tinned provisions there are the better , so far as health in the tropics is concerned . When one can keep the hen - coop ...
... piece of salt junk will admit that these and mustard are almost absolute necessities - sauces , etc. , the fewer tinned provisions there are the better , so far as health in the tropics is concerned . When one can keep the hen - coop ...
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... the fronts facing inland . On a sloping framework of thin branches , raised about 4 feet at the upper edge , and covering a piece of ground 6 feet square , BOWS AND ARROWS 33 were laid sufficient palm leaves to 32 MACPHERSON STRAIT.
... the fronts facing inland . On a sloping framework of thin branches , raised about 4 feet at the upper edge , and covering a piece of ground 6 feet square , BOWS AND ARROWS 33 were laid sufficient palm leaves to 32 MACPHERSON STRAIT.
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... piece of land purchased from the natives , were reached . In the clearing were sheds for the meteorological instruments , a very deep well , the only one in Kar Nicobar , and enclosures for several Indian cows that were kept by the ...
... piece of land purchased from the natives , were reached . In the clearing were sheds for the meteorological instruments , a very deep well , the only one in Kar Nicobar , and enclosures for several Indian cows that were kept by the ...
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... piece of pork - the offering to the spirits . The other type of building ( kamun telika ) is used as a kitchen ; it has a ridged but curved roof , an oblong floor , rounded at the back and in front , and a platform , and a semicircular ...
... piece of pork - the offering to the spirits . The other type of building ( kamun telika ) is used as a kitchen ; it has a ridged but curved roof , an oblong floor , rounded at the back and in front , and a platform , and a semicircular ...
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Page 8 - Why are we weigh'd upon with heaviness, And utterly consumed with sharp distress, While all things else have rest from weariness? All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things, And make perpetual moan, Still from one sorrow to another thrown: Nor ever fold our wings, And cease from wanderings, Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm; Nor harken what the inner spirit sings, "There is no joy but calm!
Page 271 - I had long before this repented me of that roving course of life, but never with such concern as now. I did also call to mind the many miraculous acts of God's providence towards me in the whole course of my life, of which kind I believe few men have met with the like. For all these I returned thanks in a peculiar manner, and thus once more desired God's assistance, and composed my mind as well as I could in the hopes of it...
Page 239 - ... waists, or even a petticoat — there is a very peculiar testimony of regard, which is worthy of note. About nine or ten at night, when the family is supposed to be fast asleep within the...
Page 271 - The evening of this i8th day was very dismal. The sky looked very black, being covered with dark clouds ; the wind blew hard, and the seas ran high. The sea was already roaring in a white foam about us ; a dark night coming on, and no land in sight to shelter us, and our little ark in danger to be swallowed by every wave ; and what was worst of all, none of us thought ourselves prepared for another world.
Page 209 - In this Island they have no king nor chief, but live like beasts. And I tell you they go all naked, both men and women, and do not use the slightest covering of any kind.
Page 272 - Never did poor mariners on a lee-shore more earnestly long for the dawning light, than we did now. At length the day appeared ; but with such dark black clouds near the horizon, that the first glimpse of the dawn appeared thirty or forty degrees high, which was dreadful enough.
Page 138 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a, weary dream.
Page iii - KLOSS, C. BODEN. In the Andamans and Nicobars. The narrative of a cruise In the schooner "Terrapin," with notices of the islands, their fauna, ethnology, etc.
Page 21 - Superintendent ; the Flag-Lieutenant of the Glasgow and a Colonel of Engineers a few paces behind, on left and right; the armed police between them, but a little nearer the Viceroy. The Superintendent turned aside, with Lord Mayo's leave, to give an order about the morning's programme, and the Viceroy stepped quickly forward before the rest to descend the stairs to the launch. The next moment the people in the rear heard a noise as of ' the rush of some animal ' from behind the loose stones : one...
Page 271 - I had been in many imminent dangers before now, some of which I have already related, but the worst of them all was but a play-game in comparison with this. I must confess that I was in great conflicts of mind at this time. Other dangers came not upon me with such a leisurely and dreadful solemnity. A sudden skirmish or engagement, or so, was nothing when one's blood was up, and pushed forwards with eager expectations.