PREFACE.
The Author's object in adding Malay, to what he originally designed as a Sūlū work only, was to accelerate the further fusion of two dialects which have so much affinity and which will make the language of North Borneo the English of the farther Fast.
I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to Marsden's Dictionary of the Malay Language, and to Maxwell's Manual of the Malay Language for material and information which have aided me in constructing the Malay part of the Introduction. From a small Sūlū vocabulary,[1] by my esteemed friend Mr. Thomas Henry Haynes, I have adopted a few nautical terms.
W. C. COWIE.
Hurst Villa, Brockley,
London, S.E.
September 19th, 1893.
Note: Mr. Andson Cowie died in Arbroath, Scotland, February 29th, 1888, at the early age of thirty-two.
- ↑ The vocabulary referred to was edited by the Hon'ble W. E. Maxwell, C.M.G., and printed by the Straits Branch of the Asiatic Society for circulation amongst its members.
