'Obfdlete^ it is no difficult matter to conceive, that it may occafionally be 

 altogether forgotten. In the Javaneje language i can fafely affirm^, 

 that for ail the examples given by Mr. Ma rsd en, native fynonymesj 

 and generally more than one, may eafily be fuppHed. The radical 

 portion of the Mr?/<s);, however, evidently fhews itfelf the language of 

 a people far below what the Javdnsfe appear to have been previous 

 to the Hindu converfion ef both, if I may be allowed fuch' an 

 s^spreffion. 



The fcanty idiom of a race of naked favages as the Malays n\Q% 

 probably were, may well be -fuppofed to have wanted fuch terms as 

 Mr, Ma BSDEN has adduced as CKamples, more particularly, as fome of 

 them, fuch as /oy^//)/", prudence^ time znd xaufe^ evidently imply con fi-- 

 derable efforts of abftraclion, if one advert to the probable ftate of io- 

 ciety in which they were ingrafted vip<Jn the Hrlt fcanty idiom of 

 the Malays, 



All I int-end by thefe obfervations i® to point out the weaknefs and 

 fallacy of any reafoning formed upon foch imperfed; and limited data 

 as thofe with which Mr. Marsden was farnifhed i and it is far from 

 my wilh to refled on that cautious and accurate obferver, whofe opi- 

 nions are already entitled to the greatefl attention and coniideration. 



Conscious of my inability to do juflice to the fubjeft, I willingly 

 drop this difquihtion, into which the nature of the fubje6i has almoft 

 infenfibly led me, and finally doling my efiay, fubmit it to the dif- 

 crimination and learning of the Afiatic Society, who, I reft fully fafisfi- 

 ed, will do ample juftice to the motives which have induced me to at- 

 tempt this popular view of the (late of the Hindu religion on Bdi, and 

 of its firft introdu6tion into the oriental illands. (See Nete b.) 



Murahaya, IJland of Java, 



