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spirits (ri) as well as a treatise in catechism form on islam and 
iman, which altogether takes up nearly one-third of the whole book. 
We will restrict ourselves to a summary. 
After a page filled partly with Malay, partly with Tamil and 
for the third part with Arabic, follows a small treatise in Arabic, 
concerning the Prophet Muhammad; each Arabic sentence being 
followed by its Tamil translation and commentary. Subsequent- 
ly—we omit prayers, some of them with a Tamil introduction—a 
Tanul enumeration of the Muhammedan months and the luck at- 
taching to them is succeeded by prayers and invocations, and this 
portion in its turn by a short Malay tract of dogmatical tendency. 
This joins on to an enumeration, in Tamil again, of the ancient 
prophets and of Muhammad’s wives, which is concluded by a great 
magical quadrat, fully and completely elucidated by means otf 
Tamil comments, t.e. an elaborate and crudely worded exhortation 
regarding sexual matters. It is very remarkable to find a page 
containing a Persian portion and a Tamil one, the former being 
preceded by a couple of lines in Arabic characters in a language 
which is neither Tamil nor Persian nor Hindustani, but presum- 
ably some other Indian idiom. 
Next there follows a Malay treatise dealing with nearly the 
same subject, viz. exceedingly intimate and confidential hints 
about coitus and allied items, and this treatise is succeeded by a 
Tamil portion of a divinatory kind, with a complete caiendar. 
In order to give an idea of the transcription of Tamil in Arabic 
characters I mention now the numerals in both scripts. In the 
original diacritica marks are used Arabic characters. 
il aig ondru ©? Gor 00) 
2 a )) erandu Q) 2 arm @ 
3 Ai gs mundru CLP GOT 2) 
os J nalu aigay) 
a) é! anju | CHF 
‘6 a aru 2} 2 
vi oes elu | aT (lp 
8 a: eddu er_@ 
9 ail onpadu PGT LIB 
Finally the last folio, which is detached, but evidently belongs 
to the book, concludes with a Malay verse of the ordinary kind, 
on a lady and her birds, with some Javanese words, by a certain 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
