Читать книгу Glorious Boy - Aimee Liu - Страница 6

The Andaman Islands lie in the Bay of Bengal, between the 10th and 14th Parallels of North Latitude, and between the 92nd and 94th Meridians of East Longitude. . . .

. . . In 1788–89 the Government of Bengal sought to establish in [these] Islands a penal colony associated with a harbor of refuge . . . now called Port Blair.

—Maurice Vidal Portman, 1899

A History of Our Relations With the Andamanese

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing,

But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

—Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.

—Rudyard Kipling, Kim