[70] Dr K. Scherzer.
[71] The tupai of Little Nicobar, which differs somewhat from that of Great Nicobar—principally the light areas of the pelage are less yellow and less contrasted with dark areas—is considered a sub-species by Mr Gerrit D. Miller, who has named it Tupaia nicobarica surda.
[72] About this fact I am not certain, for the Malay in which our informant expressed himself was a thing quite sui generis.
[73] These fences were met with by de Röepstorff on the east coast (Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal), and by the members of the Galathea Expedition up the Galathea River in Great Nicobar (Corvetten Galathea's Jordourseiling, Steen Bille, Kjöbenhaven, 1852).
[74] The Malay roko is an affair of much wrapper and little tobacco, whose flavour would seem so bonfire-like as to be akin to the brown paper or stump of cane smoked by precocious and naughty little boys at home!
[75] It is difficult to believe that this is the true reason of the trees' infertility; but it is a fact that no coco palms, except those about the houses, bear any nuts.
[76] The ikan parang is known to us as the "garfish."
[77] Pulo (Malay, island), on the west coast, is probably a mispronunciation of Telok (Malay, bay), for at only one of the small anchorages so designated is there an island at all.
[78] Ficus brevicuspis(?)
[79] An exact counterpart to this weapon has been observed among the "Alfurus" of Kau, Gilolo; vide plate in Kukenthal's Im Malayischen Archipel.