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rather tlie duty wbiuh I jinpoap itpoo 

 m J self toward B y<»ti, will be so much 

 the more easy to fulfil as I have, for 

 several year^^ lived amoii^ them and 

 nearly as they lire tliemseJfce. 1 have 

 liad during that tlaie sufficient leisure 

 to study and know I heir. Trying tu 

 inake myself all to iill> that I tnight 

 gain all to Jcsua Chriiilj I used, ae- 

 cotnpanied bj my ^ood people, to ctimb 

 the highest inountain^j wade rlverB 

 and mar&hy places, and go through 

 the pbiris and forcst$ : H night, in 

 the fore^^t I pitched my ted t by their 

 tenta, there I sfept and tonk re^t from 

 my fatigueB : the^re nko I quc!^ tinned 

 them nn the liahitg and cu!>l[>ind of 

 their IvlbeB i then I listened wiib 

 pleasure to what the ancients of the 

 tribe related to nae of thch trftditjons 

 and rehginii^ belief or as m the oiuiii 

 and end of the worlds and future life. 



As a traveller J wisUiog to dtssicnhe 

 the habiCa of tlie hihab'itant9 ot a far 

 dUtant town, bei^ins vrith describing 

 the cnvlrous of the town, then tho 

 town ittielf, and afterwardi^ the habtt« 

 of its people ; in the same manner, 1 

 will fir?^t offer you some remarks on 

 the Malayan Peninsula and the foreigrn 

 inhabitants it contains; and I will af- 

 ter ward;* speak to you oJ its aborigines,* 



T im Mala ya n Pern n en la o r Malay- 



• Vide, Istrsiu TimM 21 it Febmiry 



