Crossword-Solution: NICOBARS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The _Northern Nicobars_ appear so regularly fringed in the published charts, that I have no doubt the reefs are of coral.

Departing from Lambri, and steering northward from Java minor one hundred and fifty miles, they reached a small island named Necuram or Norcueran (probably Nancowry, one of the Nicobars), and afterwards an island named Angaman (Andaman), from whence, steering to the southward of west a thousand miles, they arrived at that of Zeilan or Seilam, one of the most considerable in the world.

Sixteen new varieties were obtained in the Andamans and Nicobars together, thus raising the known mammalian fauna of those islands from twenty-four to forty individuals, while the collections also included ten hitherto undescribed species of birds.

CHAPTER XIV GREAT NICOBAR--WEST AND SOUTH COASTS 154 "Domeat"--Malay Traders--Trade Prices--The Shom Pe[.n] Language--Place Names--Pulo Bábi--The Growth of Land-- Climbing a Palm Tree--Servitude--Population--Views on Marriage with the Aborigines--Towards the Interior--A Shom Pe[.n] Village--The Inhabitants--Canoe-building--Barter-- The West Coast--South Bay--Walker Island--Chang-ngeh--Up the Galathea River--Water--We leave the Nicobars and sail to Sumatra.

Before visiting the Nicobars, it is necessary for all vessels to obtain a permit, so, in duty bound, we called one morning on the Chief Commissioner, and to him we are indebted for much information that became valuable in the next few months.