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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... miles away ; and next morning Barren Island had risen above the horizon . These two little islands , eastern ... miles in diameter , is merely the crater of a volcano rising abruptly from the sea , which , a quarter of a mile from shore ...
... miles away ; and next morning Barren Island had risen above the horizon . These two little islands , eastern ... miles in diameter , is merely the crater of a volcano rising abruptly from the sea , which , a quarter of a mile from shore ...
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... mile away . Sails were soon stowed and we 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 ...
... mile away . Sails were soon stowed and we 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 ...
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... with a fair though moderate breeze , which , however , soon drew round against us , covered the 36 miles to the Andamans proper , PATH - MAKING 15 and anchored before before noon next 14 BARREN ISLAND AND ARCHIPELAGO.
... with a fair though moderate breeze , which , however , soon drew round against us , covered the 36 miles to the Andamans proper , PATH - MAKING 15 and anchored before before noon next 14 BARREN ISLAND AND ARCHIPELAGO.
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... mile wide , separates the islands of John and Henry Lawrence , and with its smooth water and low banks , on which the veil of mangrove and jungle , extending to the water's edge , is broken at short intervals by small bluffs of pale ...
... mile wide , separates the islands of John and Henry Lawrence , and with its smooth water and low banks , on which the veil of mangrove and jungle , extending to the water's edge , is broken at short intervals by small bluffs of pale ...
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... mile of dry coral between ourselves and the water , with the dinghy high and dry , so , after making it fast to the mangroves , we picked a way across the reef and hailed the schooner for another boat . These coral - reefs , although ...
... mile of dry coral between ourselves and the water , with the dinghy high and dry , so , after making it fast to the mangroves , we picked a way across the reef and hailed the schooner for another boat . These coral - reefs , although ...
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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