THE PIGMIES. 3 



and notes added by Lieutenant E. C. Temple. ( l ) Colonel Lane 

 Fox, in two different papers, has given this translation, ( 2 ) and 

 summed up, though rather too briefly, the general conclusions o£ 

 the authors. ( s ) Thinking that it may be useful to readers, 

 engaged in the study of languages, I transcribe hereunder ( 4 ) the 

 document which was the starting point of this investigation. 



The study of the vocabularies to which I have just called atten- 

 tion had led Latham to admit of a certain connection between the 

 Mincopie and Burmese languages. ( 5 ) M. Pruner-Bey has pointed 

 out a few common traits in the Mincopie and New Caledonian dia- 

 lects. ( 6 ) Hyde Clarke has fancied that he could discover in the 

 Andamanese language affinities v^ith those of several races of Asia, 

 Africa and the two Americas. ( 7 ) Messrs. Man and Temple begin 

 by stating that the nine tribes which figure on the map prepared 

 by one of these authors, ( s ) have each a private language. "A 



(i) Ihe Lord's Prayer translated into Bdjingijida by E. H. Man, with 

 preface and notes by R. C. Temple. Calcutta 1877. 



(2 ) The Andaman Islands. (The Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 

 Vol. VII, p. 108 J 



(s) Observations o« Mr. Man's collection of Andamdnese and Nicobarese 

 Objects. (The Journal of the Anthropological institute, Vol. VII, p. 436.^) 



(*) He Jlaw-ro hohtdr-len ydte molldrduru • Ab-Mdyola. 



Heaven in (is) who our (lit. all of us of) Father. 



Ngia ting-len dai-i-l-mugu-en-inga itdn. Ngolla-len molldrduru 

 Thy name to be reverence paid Let. You (to) we all 



meta mdyola ngendke ab-chanag iji-la bedig. JSIaw-ro 



our chief wish for supreme only and. Heaven 



MMdr-len tegi-lut-malin gate ngia hdnik, M-ilbada 



in is obeyed Avhich thy will, in the same way 



drla-len drla-len erem-len item. Ka-wai mdlloarddru-len 



ever (daily, always) earth on Let. This day all of us 



drla-uaclian ydt-man. M6lldrdu.ru mol oiehih-lcn tigrcl gate 



to daily (lit. daily like) food give. We all us (to) i. c. against offend who 

 oloieltili-len drtidiibil. Molldrduru-lcn otig-ujunga itdn yo-ba, dona 



them forgive Us all (so) be tempted let not, but 



molldrduru-lcn abja-bag-teli ctrdj. Ngol Mchi-Ttan kdnahe ! 



us all (to) evil from deliver. (Do) thou thus order (i.e. Amen.) 



(5) Elements of Comparative Philology, p. 59. 



(e) Bulletin de la Societe d Anthropologic, de Paris, 1866, p. 12 et 13. 



(7) The Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. IV, p. 467. 



(s) The Andaman Islands by E. H. Man, Esq.,( Journal of the Anthro- 

 pological Institute, Vol. VII, p. 105.) The Lord's Prayer was translated into 

 the language spoken by the tribe inhabiting the southern island of Great 

 Andaman, where Fort Blair, the English Settlement, is situated. 



