Two or three buffaloes had been bought, at the village where Harry had landed but, with the exception of some fruit, and the meat sent off by the tumangong, no other fresh food had been obtained, since they sailed from Calcutta.

The boat was turned over and launched; and the work of making a new fore-top mast, and overhauling the rigging, proceeded with.
During the day, several of the natives were observed at the edge of the forest by Harry who, having no special work to do, had been asked by Fairclough to keep his eye on the shore, and to ascertain whether they were being watched; as he intended, when the repairs were finished, to see if any spring of fresh water existed in the neighbourhood.

He therefore kept a telescope directed on the shore and, soon after daybreak, made out two little men at the edge of the trees.
The natives of the Andaman Islands are among the lowest types of humanity known.

Their stature does not exceed five feet and, with their slender limbs and large heads, their appearance is almost that of a deformed people.

They use no clothing whatever, plastering their bodies with clay, or mud, to protect the skin from the sun's rays.