[41] Fontana mentions the palm leaves and other branches decorating the hut doors at festivals, 1778.
[42] Colebrooke, Asiatic Researches, vol. iv.
[43] "The Danes have long maintained a small settlement at the place which stands on the northernmost point of Nankauri within the harbour. A sergeant and three or four soldiers, a few black slaves, and two rusty pieces of ordnance, compose the whole. They have here two houses, one of which, entirely built of wood, is their habitation; the other, formerly inhabited by the missionaries, serves now for a storehouse."—Colebrooke, Asiatic Researches, vol. iv.
[44] Malacca.
[45] "The large, neatly-made bundles of trimmed billets of wood, have always been mistaken for firewood, even by Pastor Rosen, who spent three or four years in the Harbour. They are, however, made merely to serve as offerings, and are rolled on to a grave of some relative or friend. They are supposed to represent a substantial token of affection and regard as they take much trouble to make. Their bundles of firewood are also cylindrical, but consist of dry scraps of wood picked up in the jungle and tied round with pieces of cane."—E. H. Man.
[46] Canoes also are occasionally fed with chickens.
[47] The white-bellied sea-eagle (Cuncuma leucogaster).
The Whole of the Nicobarese Dance Music.
