in the Southern Settlements, and bhagi in Penang and Province Wellesley, as auxiliaries for the formation of transitive verbs, and the continual use of the possessive participle punya. Both of these are Chinese constructions, and in the Malay language they are quite unnecessary and very clumsy.
Methodist Episcopal Mission, Singapore,
November 1899.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The steady demand for this Malay Grammar having necessitated the printing of a second edition, the whole book has been carefully revised, and a few verbal alterations made.
Paragraph 101, on the use of the prefix m, has been rewritten; and a more complete list of compound words has been substituted for the old list in Lesson XXVII. This latter change has been made possible owing to the publication of my Malay-English Vocabulary, to which the student is referred where the compounds formed with any particular word are very numerous.
Malacca, July 1904.
