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made by David Haex, who jDublished in Malayu and 

 Dutch, a vocabulary with some grammatical observa- 

 tions. At the request of Cardinal Bauberinf, the 

 Dutch was rendered into Latin, and published with 

 the Propaganda types at Rome, 1631, under the title 

 of " Dictionarium Malaico-Latinum et Latino- Alalai- 

 cum, opera et studio Davidis Halx." This is 

 a work of some merit, but seems to have been 

 composed in the Moluccas, and inclines to the 

 Basa Timor, or eastern dialect of the Malayu. The 

 author has given a short list of Tarnata and Por- 

 tuguese words, that have been adopted into Malayu, 

 and some useful observations on the phraseology. 

 Professor Thunberg, probably by mistake, mentions 

 this work as published in 1 707. It seems to have 

 served among the Dutch, as a basis for similar compi- 

 lations. The " Malaica Collectanea Vocabularia,'' or 

 collection of vocabularies, was printed at Batama in 

 1707-8, in 2 vols. 4to. and the *' Dictionarium of te 

 JFoord ende Spraak bock in de Dutsche en de Maleysche 

 Talej' at the same place in 1708, in 4to. A " Ma- 

 leische Spraak-kunsf or Malay Grammar, was pub- 

 lished by George Hendric Vil ti^r.-shly ,'a.t Ainsterdam, 

 in 1726, 8vo. A " Nieuwe JVoordenschaft in Neder^ 

 Duitsch, Maleisch en Portugeesch, was also published 

 at Batavia in 8vo. 1780. The English have also con- 

 tributed their share to the cultivation of this language. 

 Bowrey's Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay lan-» 

 guage were published at London in 1701, in 4to. aftet* 

 the author had passed nineteen years in trading among 

 the eastern isles. This is a work of great merit and 

 labour, and though the English character only is used, 

 yet the pronunciation and the signification of words 

 are generally given with great accuracy. Bowrey, 

 however, had the assistance of the two eminent orfen-r 

 talists, Hyde and Marshall, in i^ composition, 



