[73] These fences were met with by de Röepstorff on the east coast (_Jour. Asiatic_ _Soc. Bengal_), and by the members of the _Galathea_ Expedition up the Galathea River in Great Nicobar (_Corvetten Galathea's Jordourseiling, Steen Bille_, Kjöbenhaven, 1852). [74] The Malay _roko_ is an affair of much wrapper and little tobacco, whose flavour would seem so bonfire-like as to be akin to the brown paper or stump of cane smoked by precocious and naughty little boys at home! [75] It is difficult to believe that this is the true reason of the trees' infertility; but it is a fact that no coco palms, except those about the houses, bear any nuts. [76] The _ikan parang_ is known to us as the "garfish." [77] _Pulo_ (_Malay_, island), on the west coast, is probably a mispronunciation of _Telok_ (_Malay_, bay), for at only one of the small anchorages so designated is there an island at all. [78] _Ficus brevicuspis_(?) [79] An exact counterpart to this weapon has been observed among the "Alfurus" of Kau, Gilolo; _vide_ plate in Kukenthal's _Im Malayischen Archipel_. [80] Native name = _Láful._ [81] _Nicobarese_. _Shom Pe[.n]_. Spear, nuit, allai. Finger, bewait, noité. Pandanus fruit, lar[=u]m, munkuang. [82] "The coast natives, man for man, are superior to the Shom Pe[.n], and regard themselves so both physically and mentally. I have known of a lot of the latter (estimated at about 20) attacking a coast hut in which there were only two men. On these showing resistance and wounding a couple of the Shom Pe[.n] with wooden spears, thrown from inside the hut, the latter fled, carrying away the two wounded men. I have never heard of Shom Pe[.n] venturing to attack the coast people unless they were in superior numbers and could take them by surprise,"--writes Mr E. H. Man, however. [83] _Halcyon pileata_, conspicuous by its white-tipped wings, was very common on the river, and the calls of one or two birds not elsewhere obtained, were distinguished. Numbers of fish were seen in the shallows, and sometimes a snake swimming from bank to bank was to be observed. [84] This was the estimated area before Col. Hobday's survey of 1883-5. [85] "Juru," _Andamanese_ = Sea. [86] The absence of this tree has doubtless had as much to do with the isolation in which the aborigines have lived as the hostility of the latter, for the islands produce little else than rattans and trepang--which would necessitate arduous collecting--to induce native traders to visit them. [87] Comparatively few. [88] _The Malay Archipelago_, p. 9. [89] _Vide_ paper on the "Geology of the Andamans," by Dr R. D. Oldham, _Proceedings, Geological Survey of India_, vol. xviii. [90] Still being deposited at Barren Island.