There was a light but steady breeze and, on the morning of the eighth day after sailing, Harry, on going on deck, saw land on the port side.

As the lieutenant, on the evening before, said that they should next day sight the Great Andaman, he was not surprised.
On looking at the chart, he said to Fairclough: "I should have thought that it would have been shorter to go on the other side of the islands." "It would have been rather shorter; but there are four or five islands to the north of the Andaman, and another very small one halfway between it and Negrais, so I preferred going outside.

When we get south of the Little Andaman Island, we shall pass between it and the Nicobar Islands.

I fancy that they, and perhaps the Andamans, once formed a part of Sumatra.

They are scattered almost in a line from its northern point.