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However, this changed in the mid- 1800s after the British established Penal Colonies . Increasing numbers of India n and Karen settlers arrived, encroaching on former territories of the Andamanese. Today only the Sentinelese , who live exclusively on North Sentinel Island , have been able to completely maintain their independent state, resisting attempts to contact them. The Jarawa have also managed to remain substantially apart from the later colonisers and settlers; other Andamanese groups have had more extensive contacts, resulting in drastic reductions in territory and numbers, with several peoples becoming extinct altogether. Until the 19th century, their habit of killing all shipwrecked foreigners and the remoteness of their islands prevented modification of their culture or language. Cultivation was unknown to them, and they lived off of hunting indigenous pigs, fishing, and gathering. Their only weapons were the Bow , Fishing Net s and Harpoon s. The Andamanese were the only people who in the 19th century knew no method of making fire, carefully preserving embers in hollowed-out trees from fires caused by lightning strikes. See also - early 1800s versus present-day ( 2004 ). To be noted is the movement of the Jarawa from their original siting to the western coastlines; the confinement of the Onge and Great Andamanese to isolated settlements, and the complete extinction of the Jangil . Only the Sentinelese territory remains intact.]] |