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VOYAGE OF THE POTOMAC. 
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Malay. 
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Batta. 
Rejang. 
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Fire, 
Appee, 
Addoov. 
Ahpee, 
Opoay, 
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xi,piiuu y . 
Water, 
Ayer, 
Eer, 
Ayck, 
Beole, 
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Earth, 
Tana, 
Tano, 
Tana, 
Peeta, 
Tanno. 
Cocoanut, Clappo, 
Oo, 
Crambee, 
Neole, 
Clappahi 
Rice, 
Bras, 
Bfeeagh, 
Dahano, 
Bias, 
B'eeas, 
Fish, 
Eecun, 
Incoor, 
Dakkay, 
'Conn, 
Ewah. 
Hog, 
Babee, 
Booy, 
Babee, 
Sooeetemba, 
Babooye. 
Sun, 
Matto-haree, 
Mattowraye, 
Mahtah-haree, 
Matty-beely, 
Mata-rannee. 
Moon, 
Boolan, 
Booloon, 
Boolan, 
Booloon, 
Boolan. 
I, 
Ambo-Sayo, 
Ooloon, 
Apoo, 
Ookoo, 
Gniah. 
God, 
Allah-tallah, 
Allah, ^ 
Daibattah, 
Oola-tallo, 
Alla-talla. 
In personal appearance, the Malays do not differ so much from 
the other and original inhabitants of the island, as in the qualities 
of their minds. They possess the semblance of more pride, but 
it is not that laudable pride which restrains from the commission 
of dishonourable and mean acts. Under the most subdued and 
studied composure of countenance, with cunning and plausible 
duplicity, they will dissemble the most violent passions and 
inveterate hatred, until a favourable moment of wreaking their 
vengeance on the object of their dislike shall arrive. Veracity, 
gratitude, and integrity, cannot be said to belong to the list of their 
virtues, while sentiments of honour and infamy, as a general 
remark, are scarcely distinguishable among them. In courage, a 
thousand examples of desperate conflicts with the Portuguese, 
Dutch, and English, to say nothing of the recent combat at Qual- 
lah-Battoo, might be adduced to show they are not wanting. But 
it is generally the effect of momentary enthusiasm, rather than 
that cool and deliberate bravery which bears up under reverses, 
and is at all times superior to misfortune. 
Indeed, the tout ensemble of their character seems strongly 
marked by degeneracy, and they give but little promise of any 
immediate improvement. The influence of the age has effected 
them but little, nor have they gained much by three hundred years' 
communion with the Christian world. This is not to be wondered 
at. That intercourse has not been of a character to do them 
good. In point of example, they have too often witnessed licen- 
tiousness in the foreign establishments on their shores ; pleasures 
of the table, excessive use of wine, boisterous mirth, and puerile 
amusements. These things could not pass before their eyes 
without exciting contemptuous animadversions. 
