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 IX. 



Specimen of the Language 



OF THE 



PEOPLE INHABITING THE HILLS IN 

 THE VICINITY OF BHAGULPOOR, 



Communicated in a Letter to the Secretary > 



BY 



Major R. E. Roberts. 



TJERCEIVING that the very full and fatisfaclory 

 JL account of the people inhabiting the hills in the 

 vicinity of Bhagulpoor, by Lieutenant Shawe, in the 

 Fourth Volume of the Afiatick Refearches> is unaccom- 

 panied by any fpecimen of their language, mould the 

 following one be acceptable as a fupplement to that ac- 

 count, or you deem it deferving the notice of the So- 

 ciety, 1 (hall be obliged by your laying it before them, 

 as I can rely on the correctnefs of it. 



Mr. Shawe having obferved that thefe people have 

 no writing character, I juft beg leave to add, that, 

 when I was on duty at Rajahmahl, feveral years ago, 

 a hill chief fent a verbal meffage to the commanding 

 officer, expreiling a wifh to wait upon him. Being 

 defired to appoint a day for that purpofe, he trans- 

 mitted a draw with four knots upon it, which was ex- 

 plained by the melfenger who brought it, to intimare, 

 that his matter would come on the fourth day, 



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