P. 311. Cannibalism.—­The charge of cannibalism is entirely untrue.  I quote here my paragraph as to how it arose (Census Report, p. 48).

“The charge of cannibalism seems to have arisen from three observations of the old mariners.  The Andamanese attacked and murdered without provocation every stranger they could on his landing; they burnt his body (as they did in fact that of every enemy); and they had weird all-night dances round fires.  Combine these three observations with the unprovoked murder of one of themselves, and the fear aroused by such occurrences in a far land in ignorant mariners’ minds, century after century, and a persistent charge of cannibalism is almost certain to be the result.”

The real reason for the Andamanese taking and killing every stranger that they could was that for centuries the Malays had used the islands as one of their pirate bases, and had made a practice of capturing the inhabitants to sell as slaves in the Peninsula and Siam.

P. 311. Navigation.—­It is true that they do not quit their own coasts in canoes, and I have always doubted the truth of the assertions that any of them ever found their way to any Nicobar island.

Andamanese men go naked, but the only Andamanese women that I have ever seen entirely naked in their own jungles are of the inland tribe of Jarawas.

R.C.  TEMPLE.

Nov. 29, 1919.

INDEX

Names of Persons in CAPITAL Letters.—­Subject Names in thick
Letters.—­Title of Books in italics.

Aas (The Alans). 
Ab-i-Panja. 
ABRAHAM. 
ACHMED.
Acre. 
ADAM of Bremen. 
Aden. 
Afghanistan. 
Africa. 
AGHRUKJI. 
Agror. 
AHMED.
AHMED SHIBAB EDDIN. 
ALBUGA. 
Ain-i-Akbari. 
AI-YA-CH’IH. 
Aksu. 
A-KUO. 
A-LA-HAN. 
Alans. 
A-LA-PU-TAN. 
Alashan. 
A-LA-WA-TING. 
ALBIRUNI. 
ALFARIC, P.
AL FAKHRI. 
Aloes. 
A-lo-sz’. 
A-lu. 
AMAR, E.
Amb. 
Ambergris. 
Amoy. 
A-nan. 
Andaman. 
Angamanain. 
An-hsi-hsiang. 
An-si-tsio. 
Antwerp. 
Arrabia. 
Arakan. 
ARANZADI, Telesforo de. 
Arbre sec, arbre seul, arbre sol. 
ARGHUN KHAN. 
Arhat. 
A-R-HUN. 
Ariora. 
Aerkaguen. 
Armenie. 
Arnawal. 
Arsacie. 
ARSLAN. 
Aru. 
ASEDIN SOLDAN. 
Ashreth. 
Asia Minor. 
Asiot. 
Asmar. 
A-TA-HAI. 
Atyugrapura. 
AVICENNE. 
AYMONIER. 
Azoo, R.F.

Badakhshan. 
Badghis. 
Baghdad. 
Bahabad. 
Baharak. 
Baikal. 
Bajistan. 
Bajkatta. 
BAKHSH, Maula. 
Balkh. 
Baltistan. 
Baluchi. 
Baluchistan. 
Balur. 
Baluristan. 
Bamian. 
Barbary. 
BARBOSA. 
Bargu, Lake. 
Barguchin. 
Bargut. 
Bark of Trees.
Barlaam. 
Baroghil. 
BARROS.