NEAR JAVA. 1751. i5i 



it is inhabited by merchants of all nations, and 

 even by Chinefe, who contribute much to the 

 riches of this place. The Dutch Council of 

 India has its feat there ; and from thence 

 directs their Eaji-India trade. 



The Dutch intend to poifefs themfelves of 

 Bantam, a town and kingdom which has 

 formerly been governed by a Mahomedan 

 King, and carries on a great trade in pepper. 



It is faid that the language is either that of 

 the natives or the Malaic. Leidecker has 

 wrote the firft Malalc and Dutch dictionary in 

 Batavia, which Cardinal Barberini got pub- 

 1 idled in Latin at Rome, 163 1, in quarto, by 

 David Hixio. Hadrianus Relandus, in his 

 Diffcrtationes mifceilanea f hzs\[kewik publifhed 

 a fylloge of the dictionary of Leidecker. Not 

 to mention fome other works which the Dutch 

 have publifhed in the Malaic language, fuch 

 as the New Tejiwnent, &c. n 



The Malaic language is faid to be more 

 univerfal in India, than Latin in Europe. 



Bats ? of the fize of ravens, flew every 



evening from Summatra to Java, to fpend the 



n Mr. Boivrey publifhed a Malayo and Engliih Dictio- 

 nary, in Quarto, at Lond, 1701. 



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