LACCADIVES, THE

LACCADIVES, THE
   or THE HUNDRED THOUSAND ISLES
   (14), a group of low-lying coral islands 200 m. W. of the Malabar coast of India, mostly barren, and yielding chiefly cocoa-nuts; the population being Hindus professing Mohammedanism and poorly off.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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