This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...days unmolested, and without seeing any one. On the third day, while the boat had gone off to the ship for provisions, the party were suddenly surprised by a large number of savages, who commenced an attack on them with bows and arrows; upon this some took to the sea, the Nacodah and nine men succeeded in getting off ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...days unmolested, and without seeing any one. On the third day, while the boat had gone off to the ship for provisions, the party were suddenly surprised by a large number of savages, who commenced an attack on them with bows and arrows; upon this some took to the sea, the Nacodah and nine men succeeded in getting off in the ship's boat which had returned, and some took to the jungle, while others made a raft and put to sea. The party in the boat was picked up by a Coringa brig, which took them to Moulmein. Acting upon information given by the Nacodah to the Master-Attendant, Major Nelson Davies, the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, with praiseworthy promptitude, chartered the steamer Defiance, which proceeded to Port Blair, and, ultimately, with the assistance of another vessel, rescued the greater number of the unfortunate castaways. An Indian journal has called attention to a report recently issued on the vegetation of the Andaman Islands, in which Mr. Kurz, the curator of the Herbarium of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, gives it as his opinion that the Andaman Islands are in a sinking state, and must eventually disappear. Mr. Kurz has arrived at this conclusion from having observed, at various points of the islands, a vast extent of decaying vegetation, stumps of trees, etc., covered by or open to the action of the sea. There are at the present time upwards of 6,000 convicts located at the penal settlements on the Andamans; but there is no occasion for immediate anxiety on their behalf, for, according to Mr. Kurz, the submersion is proceeding only at the rate of one foot in 100 years, and it will take 1,000 years before all the stores and houses along the beach at Ross Island disappear under water. All these constantly recurring outrages seem to poin...
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