Adventures of a Missionary Maturalist
IN THE NICOBAR ISLANDS.

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Se cjN the year 1756 a commercial establish-
| ment was begun by the Danes on the
v7 y | Nicobar Islands; and shortly after a band
— of devoted missionaries belonging to the
Church of the United Brethren settled there, for
the purpose of endeavouring to convert the natives
to the Christian faith, Among these heroic men
was one named John Gottfried Haensel, who during
seven years remained at his post until he was the
sole survivor, and was compelled to abandon that
melancholy field of labour which had proved fatal
to all his associates, who had found an untimely
grave in Nancauwery, the island on which they
had resided.

In a series of curious and valuable letters Haensel
has described this group, with their inhabitants
and natural productions; and in his account of the