Letters on the Nicobar islands, their natural productions, and the manners, customs, and superstitions of the natives / with an account of an attempt made by the Church of the / United Brethren, to convert them to Christianity

by Johann Gottfried Haensel

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[ ⁴ ] See Fontana's Account of these Birds. Asiatic Researches, Vol. III. p. 292.

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[ ⁵ ] A species of Pandanus. See Asiatic Researches, Vol. III. p. 292.

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[ ⁶ ] Hence the fabulous stories of men with tails, related by Kloping, a Swedish navigator.

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[ ⁷ ] An appellation borrowed from the Portuguese Missionaries.

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[ ⁸ ] A disorder known in India by the name of the Cochin leg. Asiatic Researches, Vol. III.