Villages. _See_ under names of islands Viper Island, 25, 26 Jail. _See_ "Jail" Volcanic activity, A., 13, 14, 174 Walker Island, 161 _Wanaka Kuv_, K.N., 291 Water. _See_ under names of islands Water birds. _See_ "Birds," and under names of islands Wealth, staples of, K.N., 50 Comparison of past and present, 292 Weapons and implements, A., 184, 189; N., 243-245. _See_ "Bows," "Arrows," "Spears" Weight, average Andamanese, 342 Weirs, fishing, N., 246 West Bay. _See_ under "Kachal" Whale, killer, 119 Wind and weather, average, A., 335 Wizard murders, K.N., 314, 315 Wizardry, credence in, A., 188 Chaura natives believed to be exponents of, 296 Kar Nicobar, 314 Mode of obtaining reputation for, 314 Women, position of, A., 187; N., 242; S.P., 220 Woods, list of the more useful and valuable, A., 339 Worthington, William, 91, 92 Wreck and death of Captain Owen, 70, 71, 212 Wrecks on Sir John Lawrence Island, 181 Wrestling, N., 251 Yassan, N., 111, 116 _Yeng Awn_, K.N., 291 _Yintovna Siya_, K.N., 298, 299 _Yam Ap_, K.N., 302 _Yom Elpanam_, K.N., 302 Printed by Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh FOOTNOTES: [1] _The Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_, by E. H. Man, 1884. [2] On February 24th of this year Mr Vaux was killed while leading a punitive expedition against a section of the Jarawa tribe, who had recently murdered some wood-cutters. He rushed the last of several hostile camps by night, and took a number of prisoners; but, treading in the ashes of a smouldering fire at the moment of success, he caused it to blaze up, and being seen by a retreating native, was shot through the chest with an arrow, and died almost immediately. [3] The Sellungs are a primitive and timid tribe, who wander in canoes among the Mergui Islands during the fine weather, and make temporary settlements on lee-shores in the south-west monsoon. They number between two and three thousand. [4] _The Cruise of the Marchesa_, by F. H. H. Guillemard, second edition, London, 1889. [5] 1901. [6] Temperature in 1891 = 103.5. Hume visited the island in 1873 and noted 140°, while in 1866 the Andaman Committee found the temperature to be between 158° and 163°. In 1857 Dr Mouat landed, and writes of "a natural boiling spring, the waters so extremely hot that they rendered the sea in the immediate neighbourhood warm enough to roast crabs in their shells," and about the same date Dr von Liebig records a broad but thin sheet of nearly boiling water issuing from beneath the lava, and the sea warm for many yards to a depth of more than 8 feet. Earlier still, in 1831, we have Dr Adam's account, which states that 100 yards from shore the water was nearly boiling; the stones and rocks on shore exposed at low tide were smoking and hissing, and the water was boiling all round them.