CHAPTER XIV

GREAT NICOBAR--WEST AND SOUTH COASTS 154

"Domeat"--Malay Traders--Trade Prices--The Shom Pe[.n] Language--Place Names--Pulo Babi--The Growth of Land-- Climbing a Palm Tree--Servitude--Population--Views on Marriage with the Aborigines--Towards the Interior--A Shom Pe[.n] Village--The Inhabitants--Canoe-building--Barter-- The West Coast--South Bay--Walker Island--Chang-ngeh--Up the Galathea River--Water--We leave the Nicobars and sail to Sumatra.