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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... runs a rippling brook , and lastly , two or three native huts and their occupants , so that one can lie , pyjama - clad , in the shade , and consume young coconuts without first having to climb for them . " Only to hear and see the far ...
... runs a rippling brook , and lastly , two or three native huts and their occupants , so that one can lie , pyjama - clad , in the shade , and consume young coconuts without first having to climb for them . " Only to hear and see the far ...
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... run to Port Blair in about seven hours . Easily picking up the Settlement while some distance off , on account of its ... running east and west across it ; the southern portion is occupied by the barracks of the convicts , and the other ...
... run to Port Blair in about seven hours . Easily picking up the Settlement while some distance off , on account of its ... running east and west across it ; the southern portion is occupied by the barracks of the convicts , and the other ...
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... running from back to front . Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type , which , healing without any tendency to keloid , left a smooth mark , distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface . Many ...
... running from back to front . Chest and back were covered with skin decoration of the cicatrice type , which , healing without any tendency to keloid , left a smooth mark , distinguished by its lustre only from the normal surface . Many ...
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... running inland from the beach , so that one can walk up and down between them as in the lines of an artificial plantation . The beach on which we landed was composed entirely of white coral sand , and upon it we found graceful branches ...
... running inland from the beach , so that one can walk up and down between them as in the lines of an artificial plantation . The beach on which we landed was composed entirely of white coral sand , and upon it we found graceful branches ...
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... run inland for short distances . We brought up off the northern of these , by name Bumila , which seemed to offer a well - protected anchorage ; but when the boat was sent off with a sounding - line to make observations , we found that ...
... run inland for short distances . We brought up off the northern of these , by name Bumila , which seemed to offer a well - protected anchorage ; but when the boat was sent off with a sounding - line to make observations , we found that ...
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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