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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.
Historical details respecting this Archipelago.--Arrival at
Kar-Nicobar.--Communication with the Aborigines.--Village of
Saoui and "Captain John."--Meet with two white men.--Journey to
the south side of the Island.--Village of Komios.--Forest
Scenery.--Batte-Malve.--Tillangschong.--Arrival and stay at
Nangkauri Harbour.--Village of Itoe.--Peak Mongkata on Kamorta.--
Villages of Enuang and Malacca.--Tripjet, the first settlement
of the Moravian Brothers.--Ulala Cove.--Voyage through the
Archipelago.--The Island of Treis.--Pulo Miu.--Pandanus Forest.--
St. George's Channel.--Island of Kondul.--Departure for the
northern coast of Great Nicobar.--Mangrove Swamp.--Malay
traders.--Remarks upon the natives of Great Nicobar.--Disaster
to a boat dispatched to make Geodetical observations.--Visit to
the Southern Bay of Great Nicobar.--General results obtained
during the stay of the Expedition in this Archipelago.--
Nautical, Climatic, and Geognostic observations.--Vegetation.--
Animal Life.--Ethnography.--Prospects of this group of Islands
in the way of settlement and cultivation.--Voyage to the Straits
of Malacca.--Arrival at Singapore. 1