CHAPTER XIII

GREAT NICOBAR--WEST COAST 141

Pulo Kunyi--Area of Great Nicobar--Mountains--Rivers--The Village--The Shom Pe[.n]--Casuarina Bay--An Ingenious "Dog-hobble"--In the Jungle--A Shom Pe[.n] Village--Men of the Shom Pe[.n]--A Lazy Morning--The Shom Pe[.n] again-- Their Similarity to the Nicobarese--Food--Implements-- Cooking-vessel--The Dagmar River--Casuarina Bay--Pulo Nyur-- Water--A Boat Expedition--The Alexandra River--Shom Pe[.n] Villages--Kopenheat--More Shom Pe[.n]--Elephantiasis--Pet Monkeys--Anchorage.