dinally, but they do not meet in the middle, fo that an opening
is left over-againft the door; each end of the houfe
therefore, to the right and left of the door, is divided into
two rooms, like flails in a liable, all open towards the paf-
fage from the door to the wall on the oppofite fide: in that
next the door to the left hand, the children fleep; that oppofite
to it,, on the right hand, is allotted to ftrangers; the
mailer and his wife fleep in the inner room on the left hand,
and that oppofite to it is the kitchen. There is no difference
between the houfes of the poor and the rich, but in the fize ;
except that the royal palace, and the houfe of a man, whofe
name is Gundang, the next in riches and influence to the
King, is walled with boards inftead of being wattled with
flicks and bamboo.
As the people are obliged to abandon the town, and live
in the rice-fields at certain feafons, to fecure their crops from
the birds and the monkies, they have occafional houfes there
for their accommodation. They are exactly the fame as the
houfes in the town, except that they are fmaller, and are
elevated eight or ten feet above the ground inftead of four.
The difpofition of the people, as far as we could dif-
cover it, is good. They dealt with us very honeftly, except,
like all-other Indians; and the itinerant retailers of filh in
London, they alked fometimes twice, and fometimes thrice
as much for their commodities as they would take. As what
they brought to market, belonged, in different proportions,
to a confiderable number of the. natives, and it would have
been difficult to purchafe it in feparate lots, they found"out ^
a very eafy expedient with which every one was fatisfied:
they put all. that was. bought of one kind, as plantains, or
cocoa-nuts, together, and when we had agreed for the heap,
they divided-the-money that was paid for it, among thofe
i, of
of whofe feparate property it co.nfifted, in. a proportion eor-
refponding .with their contributions. Sometimes, indeed,
they changed our money, giving us 340 doits, amounting to
five Ihillings,- for a Spanilh dollar, and ninety-fix, amounting
to two Ihillings, for a Bengal roupee.
They all fpeak the Malay language, though they have a
language of their own, different both from the Malay and
the Javanefe. Their own language they call Catta Gunahg,
the language of the mountains; and they fay that it is
fpoken upon the mountains of Java, whence their tribe originally
migrated, firft to New Bay, and then to their prefent
ftation, being driven from their firft fettlement by tygers,
which they found too numerous to fubdue. I have already
obferved, that feveral languages are fpoken by the native Javanefe,
in different parts of their ifland; but when I fay that
the language of thefe people is different from the Javanefe, I
mean that it is different from the language which is fpoken
at Samarang, a place that is diftant only one day’s journey
from the refidence of the emperor of Java. The following is
a lift o f corfefponding words in the language's of Prince’s
Ifland,' Java, and Malacca.
1771.
January;
Englifh.
A man,
A woman,
A child,
The head, A
The nofe,
The eyes, .
The ears,
The teeth,
The belly,
The backfide,
Prince’s Ifland. Javanefe.
Jalma, | Oong Lanang,
BeGang, Oong Wadong,
Oroculatacke, Lari,
Holo,
Erung, .
Ma.ta,
Choie,.- .
Cutock,
Beatung,
Serit, • t ,
Undafs,
Erung,-
Moto,
Cuping,
Untu,
Wuttoiïg,
Cel it,
3A 2
§ Malay.
Oran LackiLacki.
Parampuan.
Anack.
Capalla.
Edung.
Mata.
Cuping.
Gfrigi.
Prot.
P.antat.
The
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