ised. The
most complete and reliable book on the subject is E.H. MAN'S _Aboriginal
Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_, London, 1883. KLOSS, _Andamans and
Nicobars_, 1902, is a good book. GERINI'S _Researches on Ptolemy's
Geography of Eastern Asia_, 1909, is valuable for the present purpose.

The best books on the Nicobars are MAN'S _Nicobarese Vocabulary_,
published in 1888, and MAN'S _Dictionary of the Central Nicobarese
Language_, published in 1889. I am still publishing Mr. MAN'S _Dictionary
of the South Andaman Language in the Indian Antiquary_.

Recent information has so superseded old ideas about both groups of
islands that I suggest several of the notes in the 1903 edition of Marco
Polo be recast in reference to it.

With reference to the _Census Report_ noted above, I may remark that this
was the first Census Report ever made on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
and according to the custom of the Government of India, such a report has
to summarise all available information under headings called Descriptive,
Ethnography, Languages. Under the heading Descriptive are sub-heads,
Geography, Meteorology, Geography, History, so that practically my _Census
Report_ had to include in a summarised form all the available information
there was about the islands at that time. It has a complete index, and I
therefore suggest that it should be referred to for any point on which
information is required.

NICOBARS.

P. 307. _No king or chief_.--This is incorrect. They have distinct village
communities, governed each by its own chief, with definite rules of
property and succession and marriage. See _Census Report_ pp. 214, 212.

Pp. 307-308, Note 1. For Pulo Gomez, see BOWREY, _Countries Round the Bay
of Bengal_, ed. Temple, Hakluyt Society, p. 287 and footnote 4. Bowrey (c.
1675) calls it Pullo Gomus, and a marine journal of 1675 calls it Polo
Gomos.

_Origin of the name Nicobars_.--On this point I quote my paragraph thereon
on p. 185, _Census Report_.

"The situation of the Nicobars along the line of a very ancient trade has
caused them to be reported by traders and sea-farers through all
historical times. Gerini has fixed on Maniola for Car-Nicobar and
Agathodaimonos for Great Nicobar as the right ascription of Ptolemy's
island names for this region. This ascription agrees generally with the
mediaeval editions of Ptolemy. Yule's guess that Ptolemy's Barussae is the
Nicobars is corrected by Gerini's statement that it re