Produced by Thorsten Kontowski, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file made from scans of public domain material at Austrian Literature Online.) * * * * * Transcriber's Note: The original publication has been replicated faithfully except as shown in the List Of Corrections at the end of the text. Words in italics are indicated like _this_. Footnotes are located near the end of each chapter. [oe] represents the oe ligature. * * * * * NARRATIVE OF THE Circumnavigation of the Globe BY THE AUSTRIAN FRIGATE NOVARA, (COMMODORE B. VON WULLERSTORF-URBAIR,) _Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government_, IN THE YEARS 1857, 1858, & 1859, UNDER THE IMMEDIATE AUSPICES OF HIS I. AND R. HIGHNESS THE ARCHDUKE FERDINAND MAXIMILIAN, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AUSTRIAN NAVY. BY DR. KARL SCHERZER, MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION, AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AMERICA," ETC. VOL. II. [Illustration] LONDON: _SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO._, 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1862. [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.] JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER X. THE NICOBAR ISLANDS.