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urorks wlirch have been printed, many Vocabularies 

 and Dictionaries exist in MSS. in Dutch, English and 

 Portuguese ; andot these several are in my possession. 

 RtLAND, in his " Dissertatio dc Unguis Insularurn 

 Orientalium^ mentions a large ]\IS. Dictionary 

 which he had consulted, composed by Leidekkek, 

 a Dutch clergyman in Batnx'ia, from which he has 

 selected a specimen of the language. Several smaller 

 Vocabularies of Malayu have been published, chiefly 

 by voyagers and travellers, with various degrees of 

 accuracy. Being generally constructed in a very 

 humed manner, by persons devoid of a radical know- 

 ledge of tlie language, and often, as may be pre- 

 sumed, under the necessity of expressing their 

 questions by a mixture of signs, they generally 

 abound in very ludicrous errors and risible mistakes. 

 Of this kind, many instances might easily be selected 

 from Labillardiere's Malay Vocabulary, nor is 

 that published by Professor Thunberg, in his travels, 

 entirely free from them. Besides they are generally 

 mixed with a variety of lingua franca^ and other 

 eastern words that are never received in correct 

 Malayu. 



The sacred scriptures, at aii early period, began to 

 be translated into the Malayu language. The gospels 

 of Matthew and Mark were first published in the 

 Malayu language and Arabic character at Enchusa, 

 in 1629, in 4to. accord in;2: to the version of Alb. 

 Corn. Ruyl, and accompanied with the Dutch ver- 

 sion. A second edition was published at Amsterdain 

 in 1^38. The gospels of Luke and John were pub- 

 lished at Amsterdam^ in I646, according to the ver- 

 sion of John Van Hasel and Just. Heurn, in I648, 

 published " Psalmi quinguaginfa priores, Malaice et 

 Belgice" The four gospels were republished, more 



