m THE UroiAN ANTIQtrABT. [Mai, An*u«t* to Mr. 5iW«iV T # Qurria. (fna.iUt.w4, TV-p.ua.) (1.) The Kiuc tree A-atria p It is very common in tho fConkun, and i* known there by tho name Kinai. It iu u uMnl •tree, and its dark heart wood closely re- sembles black wood. (2.) Khiirdsanf is the Ow Thii compositeur plant in extensively enltivntpd in various parts of India Tor ire Kf-od (or rather ttic fruit), In the neighbourhood of Bombay It m known by lite ubov tUUttO, h» the Dckhau it is railed K ft r a 1 a , and in Upper India it goes hy the name of Rama til cm'l Kilfttil. It yields an edible ttll r which is also useful in pointing, for burning, &c Kabaxu Daji. Bcrthey, Mh April I SON a Of HAFISL I'lir- Miowlriij; in, in the measure of tho orijgtfttu, oj ' HL10U9 aoug of TlaHs, u taken from the Calcutta jRcpiac_>— Singer, ning with all thino art, Strains over charming, sweetly uuw; Seek for thy win" that opes the heart. Ever mora sparkling, brightly new! "With thine own loved one, like a toy. Seated apart in heavenly jny, Snatch from her lips kia* after kits, Momently a t ill renew tho blSea! Boy with trie silver anklets, bring Wins lq inspire mo as I fling; Hasten to poor in goblet bright Ncclur of Shim?., eonl'* delight, Life is but life, and pleasure s thi Long a* thou ipiafTat f- i lag wine; Pmir out the flaguu'a nectary wealth. Brink to thy lured one many a health Thou who Last stole my haul away, Darling, for mo thy oharmff 'display. Deck and adont thy youth's soft bloom, Hoe each fair dye nndjjweot perfume, Zephyr mom, when passing "by Bow'rot iricafiago &igb, Strains from bur Haua fond and true, Stnumi still inure spark l ing. BfTOctiy now! the toe. historic people of the fUCOBi • Few literary and topographical curio* it ie>i havo appeared for many a day so unique as a I ojfDiatcti* qttfcm <« m* JWop&ar oW AmA I*Uwi*, by Mr. F. A. do Kocpatortf, on extra asautant commissioner there, and son of out* of i!n' last Banish {inremars of the Ntcohuro. tfci work, of which only forty-five capias have beau published, ia a vast hut thin folio, print*] -' band-prosB of tho convict sett lament of Port Blair, which is wj In type that corrections and additions have been modi; in many instance* by th&pen. Mr.de llneprtorff devotee fiftitinafhfs expansive pages to an account or tho inhabitants, while the reyi. of fcbo work consists of a vocabulary
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Nieobar, TenraMO, Car Nieobar, Stiobwng, and Aii'lti'iinii tlinlncta. Though side by Bide in the direction of north ami sooth, the Andaman* and tho Nieobara differ widely both as to their products and their people. The Andaman* are clothed to tho wnttr's edge wirh lordly forest t to -a and mangrove jangle, made so impenetrable- by glorious creepers and brushwood that oven the pigmy inhabitant i sometimes I penetrate tho forests. Not a pftlnvtreo is to bo seen except such as wo have Introdnced. The Audu* mannse manj when fully grown, rouge* in hr from 4 feet f» inches tn ', feet 1 inch. His n origin is uninistukeablc. The Meobara, on the other hand, produce magnificent forests of coem* nut palms., espackllj amid Iho ourol wai frnijT' "j the islands. Tlio iuttirinr is dotted with kmg-Ktretnhing patches of grass, which, id distance, look like a series of English park ar© in reality jungle, marking tho compare mi fruitful soilot n clay. The Mooh»ro»aV or Nun kauri, an boi I. from the iiland* whiclt wc know hest, Mtands out from ft" -*•' to U *','* in height when fully grown Though neither Mala/ Burmese, ku looks like a crura bctwi may, till wo know more ulxutt hlro, bt« }• the outer fringe of tho Malayan raoes, aorordingtn Dr. rUnkj Mr do RoopatorH Uy refuses to dogmutixo nave in a iisgatirn way. A Andaimmeso point to a fieroer tribe iu the interior, the JadfthK, who aro aboriginal comparod them, so in the Nirobara W*hav« thu Shol • n a purely Mougul tan race. Iln( kauri peoplR, or Nioobnreae pmnirr. have pnuluully gol i In' h» iter of them, though iherr>are ptill ocra- Bionnl fights, and tho majority hs •Inwn as ths potters of the group in tho isolated island rifShanra, A r - the kitchen nuddnns, or heaps ol oyster-shells covermg articles umdn in copper and iron, point to an uldur race, oi civilixatiou, than that of the Andanianose. who no longer eat oysters, and used only Hint before we introduced iron, so Mr de Boepsiorir pronounces I lie S ieubareso "i very old people, having pre*erv»d their old cnvilixatiuu and religluus customs intact, "ink, perhaps, their religious idn&a &, have gradually Atod Each Nscohftr Itumlot or Trom four to twenty houses furuu a democratic community cnrklied by
