AND A MAN ISLANDS

(12° 26’ N., 92° 22’ E.), two groups, Great A. and little A., Bay of Bengal; number some 200; largest: North, Middle, and South A.; area, 2508 sq. miles. Surface is hilly; highest peak, Saddle Peak, North A. (2400 ft.); no rivers; many bays have beautiful coral beds; coasts indented; principal harbours, Port Blair, Elphinstone Harbor, Stewart Sound, Port Climate is tropical; products, tea, coffee, timber, sugar, nuts, aloes, etc.; fauna include turtles, bats, wild-cats, pigs. Natives (c. 2000) are Negroid savages of small stature. Bengal government established mal colony on islands, 1789-96. Ind. government has had convict settlement at Port Blair, since 1858; convict pop. 1911, 12,000