[91] This conclusion, although in some ways difficult to conceive of--for the Arakan coast to the north, and the Nicobars to the south, are both fringed by raised coral beaches, which show they have recently been elevated--is based principally on the fact that stumps of trees, which grow only above high-water mark, and beyond the reach of salt water, are found in the mangrove swamps and on the seashore. [92] _Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages._ [93] _Extractes of Master Cæsar Frederike: his Eighteen Yeares' Indian Observations. Purchus: his Pilgrimes_, London, 1625; vol. ii., p. 1710. [94] _A Voyage Round the World by Dr John Francis Gemelli Careri. Churchill's Collection of Voyages and Travels_, vol. iv. [95] _Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages._ [96] _A Mission to Ava_, by Col. Michael Syme, 3 vols. [97] The _Indian Antiquary_, monthly numbers, April 1900-June 1901, contains articles by Lieut.-Col. R. C. Temple on Blair's reports of his survey and settlement in the Andamans. [98] _Vide_ "Our Monthly," June and July 1883. Rangoon. [99] Since 1879, when the Cocos were transferred from the Commission of the Andamans to that of Burma, several settlements, less unfortunate, have been made in the same island for the purpose of trade in coconuts and timber. There is now a lighthouse on Table Island--the most northerly of the group--where many wild cattle (originally domestic) roam. [100] As one goes from South to North, the tribes become larger in stature and redder (less black).--M. V. Portman, _Jour. Royal Asiatic Soc._, 1881. [101] Lieut.-Col. R. C. Temple, quoted in _The Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_, by E. H. Man--a work that deals in a most exhaustive manner with the subjects indicated in the title, but is now, unfortunately, out of print. [102] "The dead are often disposed of on platforms erected in the fork of some suitable tree. Old people and infants are generally buried."--E. H. Man. [103] In the _Jour. Royal Asiatic Soc._, 1881, Mr M. V. Portman writes:--"Although traditions of a Creation, a Fall, a Deluge, and a future state have been recorded as extant among the Andamanese, there is reason to believe that these accounts are merely the Christian religion as formerly taught in the Andaman orphanages, and distorted among the natives; for, while the southern tribes have a legend of a stone house where the Deity was born, the northern tribes, who have not been brought into contact with the Settlement, have no such tradition;" but Mr E. H. Man records traditions of a Creation, Fall, and Deluge, obtained from aborigines possessing no knowledge of what had been taught to the few small children at the Orphanage (chiefly reading and writing, sewing, basket work, etc.), and moreover, doubts whether any of the latter were capable of giving an intelligent--if any--account of the views held by Christians on these subjects.