This book is not intended to be a treatise on the Maldive Islands—that terra incognita—but is simply the narrative of a visit to these islands by the author. The Maldive Archipelago is a group of coral islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean near the equator. Isolated more or less as the inhabitants are from the rest of the world except for communication with Ceylon and India, chiefly by dhows or buggalows and their own primitive sailing craft, they have ...
