. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. act with the convicts herehave deteriorated morally. Their heightseldom reaches five feet; their com-plexion is very dark, the hair crisp andwoolly. The men go naked; the womenwear round the loins a girdle of have no settled dwellings, but gofreely from island to island, and sub-sist on the fruit and beasts of the wood,and upon fish. A British settlement wasmade on North Andaman in 1789, butabandoned in 1796 for Penang. Thecapital of the present settlement is
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. act with the convicts herehave deteriorated morally. Their heightseldom reaches five feet; their com-plexion is very dark, the hair crisp andwoolly. The men go naked; the womenwear round the loins a girdle of have no settled dwellings, but gofreely from island to island, and sub-sist on the fruit and beasts of the wood,and upon fish. A British settlement wasmade on North Andaman in 1789, butabandoned in 1796 for Penang. Thecapital of the present settlement is atPort Blair, on South Andaman, thelargest island of the group. The harborhere is one of the finest in the 1858 the Andamans have been apenal settlement for Sepoy mutineersand other life convicts, ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN(ander-sen), a Danish poet and storywriter, born at Odense, April 2, 1805. ANDERSON 166 ANDERSON Having lost his father early in childhood,the boy received his elementary educa-tion in a charity school. He traveled inGermany (1828), and made tours inFrance, Italy, and the East. His impres-. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN sions of Italy are embodied in The Im-provisatore (1835). In the same yearappeared O. T., a novel of life andnature in the North. Only a Fiddler(1837) and The Poets Bazar (1842)followed. He is seen at his very best inThe Picture Book Without his dramatic compositions areThe Mulatto, The Flowers of Hap-piness, Raphaella, Ahasuerus, andThe Two Baronesses. In the Englishspeaking world Andersens great famewill ever rest upon his stories for chil-dren, the celebrated Wonder died Aug. 4, 1875. ANDERSON, city in Indiana, county-seat of Madison co.; on several railroadsand a hydraulic canal with a fall ofnearly 50 feet; 36 miles N. E. of Indi-anapolis. It is principally engaged inmanufactuing, and has National banks,public library, high school, daily andweekly newspapers, etc. Pop. (1910)22,476; (1920) 29,767. ANDERSON, a
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