Frank Finn

“ As their idea of self-determination is to shoot everyone they don't know, black, white, or brown, and as they use a bow big enough for Robin Hood, it is easily understood that they form a very effective deterrent to convicts trying to escape, which is just as well, as many of these convicts are very desperate characters ”

“ A few days later I saw the young bird, which was now fullwinged, trying to fly.
January 7th, 1901.—I saw two old birds on the tank (the absentee having evidently returned) on good terms, meeting and chattering; no sexual display, however, though both are in full plumage, equally showing rufous on neck. [I have since watched them through another winter (1901-1902) , and seen them retain full plumage all the time.] Young bird apart, flying once or twice, as well as an adult. ”

“ Well-behaved men are, however, allowed to marry and settle down, in that they are nearly as well off as if at liberty.
THE ANDAMAN PIGMIES. A group of these little people showing how they compare in stature with an average white man. ”

“ Later, I saw both together with one old bird, which drove both away; but then more than once fed the smaller one, deliberately driving the other off; this larger chick was hunting for itself. Later, saw them all near each other; both young hunting. [The food was shrimps and insects; no fish given as yet.] One parent—the smaller—was sometimes alone now.
21st.—Saw only one old Dabchick, feeding one young bird, but repelling the other larger chick. The nest has now disappeared.
25th.—I found the bigger young bird some little way out of the water, near the servants' quarters. ”

“ Only one parent was in company with the other.
26th.—The young bird taken out yesterday died this morning, although I had fed it; it proved on skinning to be very thin, with no fat even on the skin.
27th.—The other young bird still with the one parent now remaining on the tank, and being fed; it is still more ready to dive in fear than the old one, and keeps very close to it, though nearly as large. ”

“ It is true that they are pretty constantly at war, after the manner of most savages, for the tribes are very isolated, no less than eight native languages being current in the group in different islands. ”