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 Hotsmbo, 1875.] NICOBARESE HIEROGLYPHICS OR PICTTJRE-TYBnTN'G. 341 £ Thrown in a taint] with the vltitaur. Fulfilled is JAnki's heav&'s d» And Janak's and the multitude. Beams from XarAin all heart » made ghul. Tlif gods tipon their harps do pi Mo ■: I'lj'ih. [This song is in the pare Tirhnti dialect.] mi'ii ! ehsiu umat bar lai-la. Homar-tririt dekhi dekhi laga-ichh rang. Khun uinat bar ghora bo na cbarba ik, Jehi gho"i rang rang jang. BAghak chhal jo basalia palanal S:pnk hidr-al tang. Dimiki duniki je daniaru baja-in, Kb alar khatar kara ang. Bhakar bhakaf je bhang bhakosa-thi, iiur kara gill. (10) ' 'Iwuiim son auuriig-ai thikain, Bhasam cliarhawa-thi ang. iiiiV nek dal siij-al, ran bahi gel Gang. Bhana-hifkBidyapati,J snnfye ManAin,§ (15) Thikilia dienmbar hlianjr. The marriage of Mihddeva. Oli, heavens S such a fool for a husband brought ! The father looks and looks, in wonder lost ; — A lont who cannot even ride a horso Who's been in all his paces broken in ; ned on a bullock is a lion's skin, A snake strapped round in st'i-ve fur girth ; He rattling keeps a pebble in a boi, Crack. crack, [his bones all in] his body go ; Gobble, gobble, lamps of hhainj go down, Flop, Hop, chuck, chuck, his [swollen] chops I hit!: Decked out with painted streaks of sandalwood, med with ashes o'er his body all, Arrayed a cloud of demons various, see ; The [river] Ganges flowing from his h 'Tis Bidyupati sings, listen Manain. Patience, [it is the god] " digaznbar bhan XICOBABESE HIEROGLYPHICS OR PICTURE-WRITING. BY V. BALL, JLA., P.G.S., GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IXDLA. In the somewhat extensive literature of the bar Islands ami their inhabitants, which consists of numerous though much scat papers, 1 can find bni little allusion to, and no adequate description of, the hieroglyphic devices which arc so common a feato Xicnliiin-si.' h" The subject appears to me to be deserving of more i! I saing notice when viewed in connection with the disco-. rhioh have been made of somewhat similar but prehfc llgnres engraven on stones, bones, and other substances* he Andaiuunese maj be said to have not progressed in civilisation beyond I ■■ bich WftS i d by the people of the "Stone" Periods of Europe, go tin* :■• ie, who are i iin.-l ' I •"' their ni bonrsafthoAudamans, may justly be coin EL ]>■'" Lai-la, H t ThB f.uli 'T ->f I'Arvati. -2 Lagudukh, II- Ufi le. -J jaa Agfa lea vliLal Hindi busaha ; Weati rn Hii with tl . liuir- .d, H, kasa. drawn tight 7 baia-in, II bajt« ri. a. tare. '.' »■ bhak< 11 ehAaan, II. chandan; imarig-al, adorned, I with the inhabitants of Europe in the 'Bronze' Period|| — their villages, erected on posts below water mark, alone serving to suggest a comparison with the lake dwellings of Switzer- land and other country The example of Nioobarese hieroglyphics re- presented in the accompanying illustration was obtained by mo in theyear 1873 on the island of Kondnl, where I found it hanging up in the deserted ho us.- of a man who was stated to have died a short time before. Before removing it I obtained fcl it of some of the villagers, who seemed amusod at my wishing lor ir. Sundry bottles of ram, some cherootfl and rupees, enabled mo to colleeta I jr number of images. -. atensiki but these, more than incidentally, I do not pro- i ic at present. Wli ecogniziiiig the pons! bit ii, H. saja. hua. H Gel, U. gya. ■::i-liiu. It. kabte haii, ' i ia said to have been a brotber-in- Durbanirali. Mah&dova iaaoe with Bidyapati. .ikalw (honorifio tarn), U. Ltiin. I lum a Nicoborwe «pe»r-uead made of c o p pe r - Ordinarily iron, obtained from *bir», is used for makinir their ttpeara.