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SUMBAJVA. 



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US, inhabited the town of Sumbawa. Crawfurd ^ speaks of three 

 languages as existing in the island, — the Buna, the Sumbawa, and 

 the Tambora, — all of which are written in Bugis character. Two 

 of them, the first and last, are very distinct, and have but a slight 

 admixture of words of foreign origin. Mr. Diepenhorst, however. 



VIEW IN BIMA. 



who was a good linguist, informed us that there is a fourth, and 

 perfectly distinct language spoken in Dompo, a district to the 

 south-west of Bima, and that m the country around Bima itself 

 two widely-different dialects exist. 



There had been no rain in the town for six months — a period 

 of drought unusual even in Sumbawa. The water has in all 

 ^ "Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language," vol. i. p. 92. 



