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On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands

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IN considering the habits, customs, and physical A peculiarities of a savage race, it is important to acquire as much information as possible regarding the land they inhabit, and also to ascertain the nature and extent of the influences exercised by, or resulting from, their intercourse with other nationalities.

On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands.

By Edward Horace Man, Assistant Superintendent, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with Report of Researches into the language of the South Andaman Islands, by A. J. Ellis, F.R.S. Reprinted from the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. (London: Trübner and Co.)

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M., R. On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands . Nature 32, 409–410 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/032409a0

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