378 REMARKS AND OPINIONS. 



o£ the East Indian Islands, and refer to the works 

 already quoted ; Marsden's Sumatra, Raffle's Java, 

 the Asiatic Researches, the Asiatic Journal, Sec. 

 Their learning will succeed in decyphering the mo- 

 numents of forgotten history in Java, in clearing up 

 their manners and customs in connection with that 

 of other people, in deriving the aboriginal people 

 with whom we are engaged from Upper Asia, 

 and in pointing out the way by wdiich it has wan- 

 dered to its present sea-encircled abodes. 



The Philippines offer to us a peculiar family of 

 the same people, and the same mother language. 

 We here find the language in the highest per- 

 fection of its peculiar independent cultivation, and 

 the elementary works of the different dialects, for 

 which we are indebted to the Spanish missionaries, 

 open to us a philological treasure, of which we 

 shall endeavour to take a view. * 



* Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala por el Padre Ivan de 

 Noceda y el Padre Padro de San Lucas de la Comp. de Jesus. 

 Impresso en Manila en la imprenta de la Comp. de Jesus, fol. 



Vocabulario Tagalog por Fr. Pedro de Buenaventura, 1613. 



Vocabulario de la lengua Tagala por nostro Hermano, Fr. 

 Domingo de los Santos de Religiosos minores descalzos. Im- 

 pressa en la muy noble villa de Tabayos, A.D. 1703, fol. 



Idem, Reimpresso en la imprenta de N. S. de Loreto, Sam- 

 paloc, 1794'. 



Arte Tagalog por el Padre Fr. Francisco de San Joseph, 1610. 



Arte de la lengua Tagala por el Padre Augusto de la Mag- 

 dalena, 1669, 8vo. 



Arte y reglas de la lengua Tagala, Tliom, Ortiz, 4to. 



Compendio de la Arte de la lengua Tagala por el Padre, Fr. 

 Gaspar de San Augustin, Religioso de el mismo Orden, 1703. 



