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" riu,<?git " (the Malay word for dollar) for silver, and '• mas " 

 for gold. The Papuan group of languages appear to be distin- 

 guished by harsher combinations of letters, and by monosyllabic 

 words ending in a consonant, which are rarely or never found in 

 the Malay group. Some of the tribes who nre decidedly of 

 Malay race, as the people of Ternate, Tidore, and Batchian, speak 

 languages which are as decidedly of a Papuan type ; and this, 

 I believe, arises from their having originally immigrated to these 

 islands in small numbers, and by marrying native women acquired 

 a considerable portion of their language, which later arrivals of 

 Malays were obliged to learn and adopt if they settled in the. 

 country. As I have hardly mentioned in my narrative some of 

 the names of the tribes whose languages are here given, I will 

 now give a list of them, with such explanatory remarks as I may 

 think useful to the ethnologist, and then leave the vocabularies 

 to speak for themselves. 



LIST OF A^OCABULAEIES COLLECTED. 

 Thost marlccd * are lost. 



1. Malay .^ The common colloquial Malay as spoken in 

 Singapore ; written in the Arabic character. 



^- Javanese.- — Low or colloquial Javanese as spoken in 

 Java; written in a native character. 



*3. Sassak. — Spoken by the indigenes of Lombock, who are 

 Mahometans, and of a pure Malay race. 



*'t- Macassar. — Spoken in the district of Southern Celebes, 

 near Macassar ; written in a native character. Mahometans. 



*5, Bugis. — Spoken over a large part of Southern Celebes ; 

 written in a native character distinct from that of Macassar. 

 Mahometans. 



6, Bouton. — Spoken in Boutong, a large island south of 

 (.'elebes. Mahometans. 



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