In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin", with Notices of the Islands, Their Fauna, Ethnology, EtcMurray, 1903 - 373 pages |
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Page vii
... give a certain completeness to the account , I have included a more or less general description of the two Archi- pelagoes , their inhabitants , etc .; the chapters of this nature are partly compiled from the writings of those who had ...
... give a certain completeness to the account , I have included a more or less general description of the two Archi- pelagoes , their inhabitants , etc .; the chapters of this nature are partly compiled from the writings of those who had ...
Page 1
... gives coolness and abundant ventilation by means of windows which open all round it . Sailing in the tropics , with the thermometer constantly standing at 84 ° or so in the shade , necessitates for any comfort a very different ...
... gives coolness and abundant ventilation by means of windows which open all round it . Sailing in the tropics , with the thermometer constantly standing at 84 ° or so in the shade , necessitates for any comfort a very different ...
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... give myself a rest . " With the latter part of the passage I perfectly concur , for one often stands * The Cruise of the Marchesa , by F. H. H. Guillemard , second edition , London , 1889 . INTRODUCTION 7 for minutes at a time staring ...
... give myself a rest . " With the latter part of the passage I perfectly concur , for one often stands * The Cruise of the Marchesa , by F. H. H. Guillemard , second edition , London , 1889 . INTRODUCTION 7 for minutes at a time staring ...
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... give them in turn room to lift their branches towards the light . Little blue fly - catchers , utterly fearless , flitted about in the lower bushes , and , higher up , golden - billed grackles hopped or flew from branch to branch ...
... give them in turn room to lift their branches towards the light . Little blue fly - catchers , utterly fearless , flitted about in the lower bushes , and , higher up , golden - billed grackles hopped or flew from branch to branch ...
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... gives them a very striking appearance . On one of the men thus ornamented , the coating was applied in this wise : -On the face a circular patch extend- ing from brow to chin , but leaving nose and lips black ; on the front and back of ...
... gives them a very striking appearance . On one of the men thus ornamented , the coating was applied in this wise : -On the face a circular patch extend- ing from brow to chin , but leaving nose and lips black ; on the front and back of ...
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amongst anchor andamanensis Andamanese Andamans and Nicobars APPENDIX Arakan ashore bamboo Beach forest birds Blyth boat Burmese canoe Captain ceremony Chaura Chinese cloth coast coco palms coconuts colour coral cotton dance decorated Elephantiasis Elpanam fathoms fauna feast feet festival fish Friend of England fruit Gurjan harbour headman houses Hume inches Indian inhabitants Interior Jarawas jungle Kachal Kamorta Kar Nicobar killed Kondul Lamk land latter Linn Little Andaman Little Nicobar mafai Malacca Malay Malayan mangroves megapode miles monsoon Mūs Nancowry Nankauri natives Nicobar Islands Nicobarese nicobarica night obtained Offandi Padouk palm leaves pandanus piece pigs Port Blair possess Pulo rattan reef round rowed Rutland Island sail schooner seems Settlement ship Shom Pen shore side species specimens Sumatra tamiluanas Tanamara Teressa Terrapin Tilanchong toddy traders trees Trinkat vessel village voyage wind women wood yards نے نے