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period, a grammar and vocabulary of the Barma lan- 

 guage had been prepared by P. Joh. Maria Per- 

 COTO, Bishop of Messola, which seems never to have 

 been published. In the preface to the same work, 

 Amadutius mentions, that the gosp'el of St. Ma- 

 THEvv, and the epistles of St. Paul, had been ren- 

 dered into the Barma language, together with the 

 " Evangelia dierum omnium Dom'micalium,'' ^' Epistola 

 Dogjnatica, et Dialogus inter Alissionarium et Talapoi- 

 num.'' T. Paulinus, also mentions among the Bor- 

 g'tan MSS. a dialogue between a savage Kliien and an 

 JE.v-Talapoin, written in the Italian language by D. 

 Cajetanus Mantegatius, the object of which is 

 to expose the doctrine of the Talapoms, as contained 

 in the books of the Barmas. Khkn seems to be the 

 name of the rude tribe termed Kheng by Moslem 

 writers, and Kiayn by Dr. Buchanan ; and the 

 work itself, the translation of a composition circu- 

 lated among the converted Barmas by the catholic 

 missionaries. The Talapoins seem, however, to have> 

 retaliated on the missionaries; and Dr. Fr. Bucha- 

 nan has printed Vincentjus Sangermano's trans- 

 lation of " yl Tiew of the Religion of Godama," com- 

 posed by Atuli Zarado, for the express purpose of 

 converting the Christians, in which the English, 

 Dutch, Armenians, and other nations are exhorted 

 to adore Godama, the'true God ; to adore,also, his law 

 and his priests, to besolicitousinthegivingof alms and 

 in the observance of Sila, and in performing E<2w;««. 



IX. M6n. — Tlie M6n language is still used by the 

 original inhabitants o^ Pegu, who denominate them- 

 selves M6n, thouuh by the Barmias they are termed 

 Taking, and, by the Siamese, Ming-m6n. This lan- 

 guage has never been cultivated by Europeans, and 

 the only specimen of it, known to me, is that printed 

 by Dr. Fr, Buchanan, (Asiatic Researches, Vol. V.) 



