Position of the Cinques--Anchorage--Clear Water--The Forest--Beach Formation--Native Hut--Little Andaman-- Bumila Creek--Natives--Flies--Personal Decoration-- Dress and Modesty--Coats of Mud--_Coiffure_--Absence of Scarification--Elephantiasis--A Visit to the Village-- Peculiar Huts--Canoe--Bows and Arrows--The Return Journey--A slight _contretemps_--Andamanese Pig--We leave the Andamans. CHAPTER V KAR NICOBAR 44 To the Nicobars--A Tide-race--A Change of Scene-- Sáwi Bay--Geological Formation--V. Solomon--M[=u]s Village--Living-houses--Kitchens--Fruit-trees--The Natives--Headman Offandi--"Town-Halls"--Death-house-- Maternity Houses--Hospitals--Floods--"Babies' Houses"-- Birds--Oil Press--Canoes--Offandi--"Friend of England"-- "Frank Thomson"--"Little John"--Thirst for Information-- Natives' Nick-names--Mission School Boys' Work--A Truant-- The Advantage of Canoes--A Spill--Our Method of Landing-- Collecting Native Birds--A New Bat--Coconuts--V. Solomon-- The Nicobarese and Christianity--Water--Area of Kar Nicobar--Geology--Flora--Supplies. CHAPTER VI TILANCHONG 66 Batti Malv--Tilanchong--Novara Bay--Terrapin Bay--Form and Area of Tilanchong--Birds--Megapodes--A Swamp--Crocodile-- Megapode Mound--Wreck and Death of Captain Owen, 1708-- Leave Tilanchong--Foul Ground--Kamorta. CHAPTER VII TRINKAT 73 Beresford Channel--A Deserted Village--_Jheel_--Bird Life-- Wild Cattle--Scenery--Photographs--Port Registers--Tanamara-- Population--Customs--The Shom Pe[.n]--The Sequel to a Death-- Interior of the Houses. CHAPTER VIII NANKAURI 78 The Harbour Shores--A Village--_Kanaia_--Canoe--Feeding the Animals--Collecting-ground--Mangrove Creeks--Preparations for a Festival--Burial Customs--Malacca Village--Houses-- Visit Tanamara--Furniture--Talismans and "Scare-devils"-- Beliefs--Festivities--A Dance--An Educated Native--Tanamara and his Relations--Cigarettes--Refreshments--The Collections--Geology--Flora--Population--Piracy. CHAPTER IX KAMORTA 95 The Old Settlement--The Cemetery--F.H. de Röepstorff-- Mortality--Birds--The Harbour--Appearance of Kamorta-- Dring Harbour--Olta-möit--Buffalo--Spirit Traffic-- Cookery--Ceremonial Dress--A Visit from Tanamara-- Geology--Flora--Topography--Population--Hamilton's Description. CHAPTER X KACHAL AND OTHER ISLANDS 103