VOCABULARIES. 123 Making every allowance for errors of transcrip- tion, the orthography is so wantonly vague and false in all these compilations, that it is not very easy to conceive how the ears of our predecessors could have been so deceived as to record them. In the following vocabulary the whole of the languages are exhibited at one view under each woid, and follow each other in their natural classes. The first class comprehends the two great lan- guages of the western portion of the Archipelago which have exerted the most extensive influence upon those of their neighbours. The second com- prehends the languages of the tribes of the second order in the same portion of the Archipelago, and the third a specimen of the languages of the savages of lank hair and brown complexion of the same quarter. The fourth contains the great languages of the eastern portion of the Archipelago, the Bugis
- and Macassar; they?/?/? class the secondary languages
of the same quarter ; the sixth a specimen of the languages of the South Sea islands ; and the seventh of the languages of the Papuan, or woolly- haired races. Before concluding these preliminary remarks, it will be necessary that 1 explain the nature of the sources from which I have drawn such parts of this comparative series of vocabularies as I am not my- self pledged for the accuracy of. The most copi- ©us and perfect, that of the Lampungs, is extract-
