Note 37 — Chapter I · THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION (continued 2)

In the years 1872 to 1902 inclusive the Jarawa made eight attacks on camps of the friendly Andamanese in different places, in which two of the friendly Andamanese men and one girl were killed and three men and one boy were wounded. There were also one or two casual meetings between Jarawa and friendly Andamanese. One of the friendlies was surprised and killed while turtle hunting in 1894. During the same years the Jarawa made on different occasions about twenty attacks on parties of convicts or on separate individuals, killing altogether 27 convicts and two police constables, and wounding six other convicts. In these skirmishes and in the expeditions to which they gave rise three Jarawa were killed and seven wounded on various occasions, and several times Jarawa men, women or children were captured and afterwards released. A number of convicts have at different times run away from the Settlement and as some of those were never after heard of they may be supposed to have been killed by the Jarawa. For an official record of dealings with the Jarawa see the “Census Report” 1901, pp. 68–90. ↑