Note 1 — Chapter II · CEREMONIAL CUSTOMS

For many centuries the Andaman Islanders have been accustomed to see light-skinned men visit their shores in ships, Europeans, natives from the coasts of India, Burma and Malaya, and occasionally perhaps Chinese. To these aliens they gave the name of Lau, apparently regarding them as visitors from the only other world they knew of, the world of spirits1. The clothes that these “spirits” wore they called Lau ot-ǰulu, the word ot-ǰulu meaning “cold.”