[1] Anciennes rélations des Indes et de la Chine de deux voyageurs Mahométans, qui y allèrent dans le IXème siècle. Traduit de l'Arabe avec des remarques par Eus. Renaudot. Paris, chez Coignard, 1718. 8vo.
[2] Journal of the Voyage of the I.R. Ship Joseph and Theresa to the new Austrian plantations in Asia and Africa, by Nicolas Fontana, ship-surgeon to Mr. Brambilla, body physician to the Emperor, assistant surgeon in the army. Translated from the Italian MS. by Joseph-Eyerle. Dessau and Leipzig,—"Buch-handlung der Gelehrten."
[3] "I have drawn up these documents," writes Prince Kaunitz, in a state paper addressed to the Empress, dated 27th March, 1776, "in such manner as to advance the objects of your Majesty in establishing commercial intercourse between Austria and the Indies, without incurring disagreeable results, which might accrue from the conferring of unrestricted authority."
[4] A piece of parchment, cut out of a book in zig-zag fashion, which in former times was necessary in all commerce with barbarians, the captains of privateers, when unable to read, being enabled, by comparing the torn-out leaf (scontrino) with the counterfoil, which it was customary to give to all trading persons, to determine to what nationality the vessel belonged.
[5] A few years previous, in 1782, a certain C. F. von Brocktroff, of Kiel, had addressed a memorial to the Emperor Joseph II., in the course of which he warmly advocated the annexation, settlement, and reclamation of the Nicobar Islands, and, on the strength of fifteen years' experience in the East Indies, promised immense profits to the Austrian-German trade by this method of procedure. This interesting treatise will be found among the Government Archives at Vienna, and will be published in full in another section.
[6] Bolts had several times come before the public as an author. In 1771 he issued in London a work in two volumes 4to, entitled, "Considerations on Indian Affairs," which was also translated into French. Further, he published a "Recueil des pièces authentiques rélatives aux affaires de la ci-devant société Impériale-Asiatique de Trieste, gérées à Anvers," which appeared in 4to (116 pages) at Paris, in 1787.
[7] The results of this voyage of discovery are embodied partly in a work in two volumes: "Steen Bille's account of the voyage of the corvette Galatea, round the world" (Copenhagen, Leipzig, 1852), partly in a Geographical sketch of the Nicobar Islands, with special remarks upon Geology, by Dr. H. Rink (Copenhagen, 1847): there will be likewise found in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, under the heading "Nicobar Islands," and at p. 261 of the third volume of the "Journal of the Indian Archipelago," under the title "Sketches at the Nicobars," a variety of valuable contributions to our stock of knowledge respecting this island group. In addition, Mr. A. E. Zhishmann, Professor in the Imperial Royal Academy of Commerce and Navigation at Trieste, published, in anticipation of the projected visit of the Novara to this Archipelago, a valuable historico-geographical sketch, entitled, "The Nicobar Islands" (Trieste, Printing Office of the Austrian Lloyds, 1857), which appeared at the same time in the Transactions of the Imp. Roy. Geographical Society for 1857.
[8] Vide, "Indian Political Dispatches," of 1st February, 1848: also the "Hamburger Correspondent," of 30th August, 1848, and "Friend of India," for 1853, p. 455.
[9] Thus, for example, we find on the island of Kar-Nicobar the following specimens of barter:—
| For | Pair of ripe cocoa-nuts. |
| a sort of hunting-knife or cutlass, worth about $1 1⁄2 | 300 |
| a small knife-blade | 100 |
| six table knife-blades | 300 |
| an American knife | 50 |
| a hatchet | 300 |
| a musket | 500 |
| a double-barrelled gun | 2500 |
| a large spoon | 150 |
| thirty feet of silver-wire | 2500 |
| a small cask of rum | 2500 |
| a flask of arrack | 10 |
| three "sticks" of (negro-heads) tobacco | 100 |
| a flask of castor-oil | 50 |
| a cabin lamp | 500 |
| a sack of rice | 300 |
| a piece of blue calico (about 6 to 8 ells) | 100 |
| a neck-cloth | 100 |