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Excerpt from A Grammar of the Malayan Language, Vol. 1: With an Introduction and Praxis The Malayan, or, according to the pronunciation of the natives, the Malayu language (of which a Dictionary was lately, and a Grammar is now offered to the public) prevails throughout a very extensive portion of what is vaguely termed the East-Indies, including the southern part of the peninsula beyond the Ganges, now bearing the name of the Malayan peninsula, together with the islands of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, and innumerable others, as far to the eastward as the Moluccas, emphatically termed the Spice-islands, to the southward, as the island of Timor, and to the northward, as the Philippines; forming collectively the Malayan archipelago. This great insular region may also not inaptly receive the appellation of the Hither Polynesia, as distinguished from the Further Polynesia or vast expanse of South-sea islands, between which, New guinea may be considered as the common boundary. The name of Polynesia, as applied to this tract, was first used by M. De Brosses, and afterwards adopted by the late Mr. A. Dalrymple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.