. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 148 SUMBAJVA. [chap US, inhabited the town of Sumbawa. Crawfurd ^ speaks of three languages as existing in the island,—the Buna, the Sumbawa, and the Tambora,—all of which are written in Bugis character. Two of them, the first and last, are very distinct, and have but a slight admixture of words of foreign origin. Mr. Diepenhorst, VIEW IN BIMA. who was a good linguist, informed us tha
. The cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea : with notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu, and various islands of the Malay archipelago. Marchesa (Schooner yacht); Natural history; Natural history. 148 SUMBAJVA. [chap US, inhabited the town of Sumbawa. Crawfurd ^ speaks of three languages as existing in the island,—the Buna, the Sumbawa, and the Tambora,—all of which are written in Bugis character. Two of them, the first and last, are very distinct, and have but a slight admixture of words of foreign origin. Mr. Diepenhorst, VIEW IN BIMA. who was a good linguist, informed us that there is a fourth, and perfectly distinct language spoken in Dompo, a district to the south-west of Bima, and that m the country around Bima itself two widely-different dialects exist. There had been no rain in the town for six months—a period of drought unusual even in Sumbawa. The water has in all ^ "Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language," vol. i. p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Guillemard, F. H. H. (Francis Henry Hill), 1852-1933. London : J. Murray
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