1771. 



ROUND THE WORLD. 



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Samarang, a place that is distant only one day's journey 

 from the residence of the emperor of Java. The 

 following is a list of corresponding words in the lan- 

 guages of Prince's Island, Java, and Malacca. 



English. 

 A man, 

 A woman, 

 A child, 

 The head, 

 The nose, 

 The eyes, 

 The ears, 

 The teeth, 

 The belly, 

 The backside, 

 The thigh, 

 The knee, 

 The leg, 

 A nail, 

 A hand, 

 Afinger, 



In this specimen of the languages of places so near 

 to each other, the names of different parts of the 

 body are chosen, because they are easily obtained 

 from people whose language is utterly unknown, and 

 because they are more likely to be part of the original 

 stamen of the language, than any other, as types of 

 the first objects to which they would give names. It 

 is very remarkable that the Malay, the Javanese, and 

 the Prince's Island language, have words, which, if 

 not exactly similar to the corresponding words in the 

 language of the islands in the South Seas, are mani- 

 festly derived from the same source, as will appear 

 from the following table : 



