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A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

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DISSERTATION.<br />

Pacific isl<strong>and</strong>s are, in any <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, in <strong>the</strong> wild state; yet in<br />

remote times <strong>the</strong>y may have so existed, as <strong>the</strong> sheep, <strong>the</strong> horse,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> camel must have done in Europe <strong>and</strong> Asia, although<br />

no longer existing iia that condition in any known country.<br />

The following were <strong>the</strong> cultivated plants <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pacific<br />

isl<strong>and</strong>s when first observed by Eui'opeans, <strong>with</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir names in<br />

several dialects <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Polynesian, <strong>and</strong> synonymes in <strong>Malay</strong>an :<br />

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