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may end with vowels or consonants, but do so, most frequently with 
the latter. 
In the 19/ words to which I have alluded, I find that 156 are 
native, that fifteen are Malay, two Javanese; that twenty-three are 
common to these two languages, and that one word only is Sanscrit. 
The proportion of Malay and Javanese words, therefore, is nearly 
eighteen in 100, but its amount is exaggerated by the numerals 
which are nearly all Malayan. 
As in the case of the languages of the brown-complexioned races, 
the existence of the Malay and Javanese wo rds may be considered 
as in a great measure fortuitous; and neither in character or num¬ 
ber can they be considered as forming any necessary part of the 
S&mang language, 
I have compared, with this specimen of the language of the Sa- 
mang, the few words given by Colonel Colebrooke, in the Asiatic 
Researches, of the language of Andaman Islands, and the result is 
that no two words are alike, and that the latter contains no word of 
Malayan origin. 
De Dontrecasteaux* lias given a list of 103 words of the Negro 
language of Wageou, lying off the north-west end of New Guinea, 
as already alluded to. To judge by the appearance of this list, it 
seems to embrace all the sounds found in the Malay and Javanese, 
but it contains, besides, two letters,/and 2 -', which are unknown to 
these. The 103 words contain eighteen which are also found in 
Malay and Javanese. Of these ten are numerals, greatly corrupted ; 
two are synonymes, occuring with native terms; one is Ttilugu, and 
one Portuguese, both, 110 doubt, derived through the Malay. 
On comparing the native portion of the language of Wageou with 
that of the Samang, and the words of the Andaman, no resemblance 
can be found between them. 
De Dontrecasteaux gives another list of the language of a Negro 
people who visited the French ships while they lay at Boni harbour 
in Wageou, and whom he describes as having flat noses, very thick 
* Voyage antour du Monde. Paris, 1808. 
