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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.


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                               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.--P