English
Javanese (o.)
Javanese (c )
Javanese (a,)
Malay
Bali
Sunda
Lampung
Biajuk
Bugis
Timuri
Friendly Islan.
Majindanao
Madagascar
million
yuto
alon
English ten millions
Javanese (o.) wândro
Javanese (c.)
Javanese (a.) wândro
Malay — —
Bali ----------
Sunda . _
Lampung -----
Biajuk ----------
Bugis ■
Timuri — —
.Friendly Islan.
Majindanao ..
Madagascar —--------
English
Javanese (o.)
Javanese (c.)
Javanese (a.)
Malay
Bali
Sunda
Lampung
Biajuk
Bugis
Timuri
Friendly Islam
Majindanao
Madagascar
hundr. millions
boro
boro
English thous. millions
Javanese (o.) parti
Javanese (c.) ■—■ -
Javanese (a.) parti'
Malay ------
Bali ____
Sunda ¡_____ ,
Lampung .--------.
Biajuk i------- _
Bugis ■------
Timuri .
Friendly Islan.
Majindanao _
Madagascar —,_
English ten thous. mill,
Javanese (o.) pàrtomo
Javanese (c.)
Javanese (a.) pártomo
Malay -
Bali ----- •
Sunda ■
Lampung —... .
Biajuk ._____ _
Bugis i
Timuri - _____,
Friendly Islan.
Majindanao —
Madagascar — .
English hun.thous.mill,
Javanese (o.) gulmo
Javanese (c. )
Javanese (a.) gulmo
Malay ——■ ■
Bali >-------—
Sunda ______
Lampung ---------.
Biajuk _■
Bugis .
Timuri ______
Friendly Islan.
Majindanao _ _ _ _ _
Madagascar , ..
English billions
Javanese (o.) kerno
Javanese (c.)
Javanese (a.) kerno
Malay
Bali
Sunda
Lampung
Biajuk
Bugis
Timuri
Friendly Islan,.
Majindanao
Madagascar
ten billions
wurdo
English
Javanese (o.)
Javanese (c.)
Javanese (a.) wurdo
Malay
Bali
Sunda
Lampuug
Biajuk
Bugis
Timuri
Friendly Islan.
Majindanao
Madagascar
Having rendered this account of the numerals
of the Indian islanders, 1 shall proceed to give a
brief sketch of their measures of capacity,—of bulk,
—of gravity, and of extent; concluding with an account
of their money or other standards of exchangeable
value. On all these subjects, we discover
the same rudeness which characterizes their
other institutions and their manners. As we find
them obliged to strangers in their higher improvements,
so on these humbler matters also their only
precise views are from foreigners.
In the native measures, every thing is estimated
by bulk, and not by weight. Among a rude people,
corn would necessarily be the first commodity,
tire value of which would render it a matter of necessity
and convenience to fix some measure for its
exchange or barter. The manner in which this is
effected among the Javanese will point out the im