Crossword-Solution: CINQUES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

CHAPTER IV THE CINQUES AND LITTLE ANDAMAN 36 Position of the Cinques--Anchorage--Clear Water--The Forest--Beach Formation--Native Hut--Little Andaman-- Bumila Creek--Natives--Flies--Personal Decoration-- Dress and Modesty--Coats of Mud--_Coiffure_--Absence of Scarification--Elephantiasis--A Visit to the Village-- Peculiar Huts--Canoe--Bows and Arrows--The Return Journey--A slight _contretemps_--Andamanese Pig--We leave the Andamans.

CHAPTER IV THE CINQUES AND LITTLE ANDAMAN Position of the Cinques--Anchorage--Clear Water--The Forest--Beach Formation--Native Hut--Little Andaman--Bumila Creek--Natives-- Flies--Personal Decoration--Dress and Modesty--Coats of Mud-- _Coiffure_--Absence of Scarification--Elephantiasis--A Visit to the Village--Peculiar Huts--Canoe--Bows and Arrows--The Return Journey--A Slight _contretemps_--Andamanese Pig--We leave the Andamans.

There are no permanent inhabitants, but the Cinques are occasionally visited by the natives (Öngés of Little Andaman and natives from Port Blair), who probably find it a good locality for turtle and fish.

The Cinques consist of intrusive rocks of serpentine, associated with metamorphosed, indurated, and sedimentary series, mostly calcareous.

One is the well-known dicing-set, _ace_, _deuce_, _tray_, _cater_, _cinque_, _size_; thus _size-ace_ is ‘6 and one,’ _cinques_ or _sinks_, ‘double five.’ These came to us from France, and correspond with the common French numerals, except _ace_, which is Latin _as_, a word of great philological interest, meaning ‘one.’ The other borrowed set is to be found in the Slang Dictionary.