Heavy Surf--Teressa--Bompoka--A Native Legend--Hamilton-- Chaura--Wizardry--Pottery--Kachal typical of the Tropics-- Nicobarese Dress--West Bay--Lagoon--Mangroves--Whimbrel-- Formation of Kachal--Birds--Visitors to the Schooner-- Fever--Chinese Junks--Thatch--Relics--The Reef--Megapodes-- Monkeys--Full-dressed Natives--Medicine--A Death Ceremony-- Talismans--Fish and Fishing--Geology. CHAPTER XI LITTLE NICOBAR AND PULO MILO 118 A Tide-rip--Islets--A Cetacean--Pulo Milo--Timidity of the Natives--Little Nicobar--Geology--Flora--Population--Site for a Colony--Jungle Life--Banian Trees--The Houses and their Peculiarity--The Natives--Practices and Beliefs--The Shom Pe[.n]--The Harbour--We ascend a River--Kingfishers-- Water--Caves--Bats and Swallows--Nests--A Jungle Path-- Menchál Island--Collections--Monkeys--Crabs. CHAPTER XII KONDUL AND GREAT NICOBAR 131 The Anchorage--The Island--Villages--We leave Kondul--Great Nicobar--Anchorage--Collecting--Up the Creek--A Bat Camp-- Young Bats--Traces of the Shom Pe[.n]--Bird Life--Fish-- Ganges Harbour--Land Subsidence--Tupais--We Explore the Harbour--A Jungle Pig--"Jubilee" River--Chinese Navigation-- Rainy Weather--Kondul Boys--Coconuts--Chinese Rowing. CHAPTER XIII GREAT NICOBAR--WEST COAST 141 Pulo Kunyi--Area of Great Nicobar--Mountains--Rivers--The Village--The Shom Pe[.n]--Casuarina Bay--An Ingenious "Dog-hobble"--In the Jungle--A Shom Pe[.n] Village--Men of the Shom Pe[.n]--A Lazy Morning--The Shom Pe[.n] again-- Their Similarity to the Nicobarese--Food--Implements-- Cooking-vessel--The Dagmar River--Casuarina Bay--Pulo Nyur-- Water--A Boat Expedition--The Alexandra River--Shom Pe[.n] Villages--Kópenhéat--More Shom Pe[.n]--Elephantiasis--Pet Monkeys--Anchorage. CHAPTER XIV GREAT NICOBAR--WEST AND SOUTH COASTS 154 "Domeat"--Malay Traders--Trade Prices--The Shom Pe[.n] Language--Place Names--Pulo Bábi--The Growth of Land-- Climbing a Palm Tree--Servitude--Population--Views on Marriage with the Aborigines--Towards the Interior--A Shom Pe[.n] Village--The Inhabitants--Canoe-building--Barter-- The West Coast--South Bay--Walker Island--Chang-ngeh--Up the Galathea River--Water--We leave the Nicobars and sail to Sumatra. PART II CHAPTER I THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS AND THEIR INHABITANTS 167 Position--Soundings--Relationship--Islands--Area--Great Andaman Mountains--Little Andaman--Rivers--Coral Banks-- Scenery--Harbours--Timber--Flora--Climate--Cyclones-- Geology--Minerals--Subsidence--Earthquakes--History-- Aborigines--Convicts and the Penal System--Growth and Resources of the Settlement--Products and Manufactures. CHAPTER II