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good ; at least they dealt very fairly with us upon all 

 occasions, Indian-like, however, always asking double what 

 they would take for whatever they had to dispose of. But 

 this produced no inconvenience to us, who were used to 

 this kind of traffic. In making bargains they were very 

 handy, and supplied the want of small money reasonably 

 well by laying together a quantity of anything, and when 

 the price was settled dividing it among each other according 

 to the proportion each had brought to the general stock. 

 They would sometimes change our money, giving 240 doits 

 for a Spanish dollar, that is 5s. sterling, and 92, that is 

 2s. sterling, for a Bengal rupee. The money they chose, 

 however, was doits in all small bargains; dubblecheys they 

 had, but were very nice in taking them. 



Their language is different both from the Malay and 

 Javan : they all, however, speak Malay. 



These specimens of languages, so near each other in 

 situation, I choose to give together, and select the words 

 without any previous choice, as I had written them down, 

 that the similar and dissimilar words might equally be seen. 

 As for the parts of the body which I have made the subject 

 of this and all my specimens of language, I chose them in 

 preference to all others, as the names of them are easily got 

 from people of whose language the inquirer has not the 



