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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... sail to Sumatra . PAGE 154 PART II CHAPTER I THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS AND THEIR INHABITANTS Position Soundings - Relationship — Islands - Area - Great Andaman Mountains - Little Andaman - Rivers - Coral Banks - Scenery - Har- bours - Timber ...
... sail to Sumatra . PAGE 154 PART II CHAPTER I THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS AND THEIR INHABITANTS Position Soundings - Relationship — Islands - Area - Great Andaman Mountains - Little Andaman - Rivers - Coral Banks - Scenery - Har- bours - Timber ...
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... Sailing in the tropics , with the thermometer constantly standing at 84 ° or so in the shade , necessitates for any comfort a very different arrangement from what would be fitting at home . Whenever possible , the boat , while A ...
... Sailing in the tropics , with the thermometer constantly standing at 84 ° or so in the shade , necessitates for any comfort a very different arrangement from what would be fitting at home . Whenever possible , the boat , while A ...
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... sailing - master - are Malays ; for natives are far more satisfactory in nearly every way on a small boat in the tropics than white men , even if the latter could be obtained . They can put up with more restricted quarters , are less ...
... sailing - master - are Malays ; for natives are far more satisfactory in nearly every way on a small boat in the tropics than white men , even if the latter could be obtained . They can put up with more restricted quarters , are less ...
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... sail , there were always lines towing astern of the vessel , which often produced bonito , dolphin , barracouta , edible shark , and other varieties , and we carried a seine , which , when stretched across the mouth of a tidal creek ...
... sail , there were always lines towing astern of the vessel , which often produced bonito , dolphin , barracouta , edible shark , and other varieties , and we carried a seine , which , when stretched across the mouth of a tidal creek ...
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... sail , the vessel seems to fly through the water— judging by the rolling wings of foam that stream from her shoulders and gleam weirdly in the green and red rays of the sidelights . Presently the rain falls in a stinging chilly torrent ...
... sail , the vessel seems to fly through the water— judging by the rolling wings of foam that stream from her shoulders and gleam weirdly in the green and red rays of the sidelights . Presently the rain falls in a stinging chilly torrent ...
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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