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remarkable, and it will be noticed that the spelling of C., which 
was written in i612, at the same place, differs considerably from 
A. and B. Some of the chief points of resemblance between A. 
and B. are: the use of the word Jnglitir for England; meli for 
bli; similarity in the use of tashdid in all the words common to 
the two letters, namely, sakalian, negri, kapal, kapitan, t‘alok, 
ia, memeli; and the use of suhbat for sahabat. 
(C) is numbered MS. Laud Or. b. I (R) in the Bodleian 
library. It is a letter dated 1024 A. H.—1612 A. D., from the 
Sultan of Acheen to King James the First of England. It is 
written on a scroll about three feet long, and is elaborately 
illuminated. The handwriting is good, being very much su- 
perior to that of B., but the orthography is in some respects 
very similar to that of letters A. and B, 
(D) is one of a small collection of seven Malay letters, 
which are preserved in the, University library at Leiden, Holland. 
The trustees of the University library were kind enough to send 
these letters to England in order that I might have ample leisure 
to examine them and to copy them carefully. None of these 
letters had any catalogue number when I examined them. They 
are all official documents, and appear to date from the same 
period, about 1670 to 1680 A. D. I have selected two of these 
letters for reproduction in this paper. The one marked D. isa 
letter sent by the Captain Laut, a native commander of sea- 
forces, at the island of Bouton, south-east of Celebes, appointed 
by the Dutch East India Company, and addressed to the Dutch 
Governor General at Batavia. Neither this letter nor any of 
of the other six appear to be of any very special historical interest. 
The date of this letter is 1080 A. H.—1670 A. D. | 
(E) is another of the letters in the Leiden University 
library. It is an official letter from the King of Jambi, in South- 
east Sumatra, to the same Governor General to whom the above- 
mentioned letter was addressed, namely Johan Maetsuijker. 
This document bore no date, but it is minuted on the back in 
Dutch, in the handwriting of the period, as having been received 
on the 30th April, 1669. 
(F) isa letter preserved in the British Museum, where 
it is numbered Rot. Har]. 43. A. 6. This document came to the 
Museum about 1752 A. D. with the Harleian collection, but it 
