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APPENDICES. 6 1 
STOMACH, INTESTINES, Sg, cAw» Gck chott, I^.S. Mi, eJt ; C.S. 
• (exterior of stomach) hot, (iuterior of ahdomen) Hy (intesliaai 
canal) chong 4t, et tcef, (stomach proper) it pSdol ; B, 6-dUj chmg 
li-oU ; J, lepMck, wet. 
N^TEL, Sg. los, duf, dud; N.S. paniJei C.S, soJc; B. puneijli; J. 
[pmat]^ mnsaL 
BLOOD, Sg. muham, hehitm; N.S. lot-, C.S. bShij), (arterial blootl) 
kujjari 'B, ma?tthni J^mahdm. 
BOXE. Sg. [tulenif] Jing. jmg, jvheng ; N.S. jadh ; C.S. jifak ; B. 
janhi J J. jamig. 
SKIN, Sg. M«t J N.S, #-jitpoi-; C.S. geto; [te^L?] J J. [kuUt}, 
HAiRp Sg. «a% Jfl.S. fioA% sogf, #^k%; C.S. (hair of head) soh, 
(whiskers, etc) setttol ; B. sok; J, saoh, 
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NOTES ON CENTRAL SAKAI GRAMMAE. 
One of the minor tribulations that a local student of Sakai has to 
undergo is the weE-meant advice of critics in Europe as to what is 
wautM of him. I liave been asked for " A few simple sentences — surely 
thej can present no difficulty " ; or, again, for the Lord's Prayer trans- 
lated for comparative purposes into all the aboriginal tongues ; in fact, it 
has even been suggested to me in perfect seriousness tliat I should get 
my Sakai to parse their sentences so as to set all doubts about their 
grammar at rest. Aborigines do not take kindly to interrogations of 
this sort. They have a grammar without the trouble of having to learn 
all about it ; and they translate in a very primitive way. If you ask a 
Siikai to put a Malay sentence into his own language, he either trans- 
lates your words or your meaning. If ho does the former he is too 
literal ; if the latter he is not literal enoutfh. When aaked to repeat 
what he has said so as to enable you to remember it and tiike it down, 
he says the same thing in different words. That again is no use. He 
then eiiys that he is exhausted and can do no more. 
It is fatuous to attempt to build up a gi'ammar from a few 
simple sentences, even if the sentences are obtained. Still more unwise 
is it to read foreign grammars— such as Mon-Annam prefixes and 
infixes — into Sakai. If we knew as little about Malay as wv do about 
Sakai the presence of words Like Imtih, kitab and maUub might lead a 
hasty student to read the Arabic grammar into the Malay langua^, It 
