I'SS ON THE LANGUAGES AND LITERAtCRE 



correctly, with a version of the Acts of the Apostles, 

 by Just. Heurx, at Amsterdam, in 4to. I60I. Ge- 

 nesis was piibhshed in Malay, at Amsterdam, in 1662, 

 according to the version of Dan. Brouwer, and the 

 New Testament, by the same author, in 1668. A se- 

 cond edition of Genesis was published in 1687. The 

 four Evangelists and the Acts of .the Apostles were 

 published " in the Malayan tongue," at Odford, in. 

 1677, in 4to. and reprinted in 1704. Both editions 

 are in the Roman character, and though Heurn's ver- 

 sion M'as followed, yet the first edition had the ad- 

 vantage of being superintended by the learned 

 Hyde, Avho has prefixed to it, a dissertation on the 

 dialects of the Malay, and the method to be employed 

 in studying the language. The Psalms, or " Psal- 

 feritim lingua Malaica ef Belgica,'" was published by 

 Yak Hasel and Heurn at Amsterdam in 1689- 

 Tht^'Psalttrium Malaicc' was published at Amster- 

 dam in 1735, with musical notes. A complete ver- 

 sion of the Bible was published at Amsterdam, in Ro- 

 man characters, in 1733, and this version was again 

 published in the Arabic character, with the addition 

 of the Malay peculiar letters, at Batavia, in 5 vols. 

 8vo. 1758, under the direction of Jacob Moss el, 

 Governor General of the Dutch possessions in the 

 East Indies. The persons who sui)erintended the, 

 edition were Johan. Mauritz Mohr, and Herm. ) 

 PtTRUS Van de Werth. A Malay catechism was 

 also composed by Gustavus William Baron Van 

 Imhoff, and printed at Batavia in 1746. This ver- 

 sion of the Bible, is composed in the idiom of Batavia 

 and Malacca, and I have heard it objected, that it is 

 not very intelligible in Sumatra, and other Malay 

 countries ; but I regard it as quite impossible to form 

 SiMalayu version which would be approved in point 

 of style, in GVQxy Malay country sit the same tipie, 



