The disposition of the people, as far as we could discover it, is good. They dealt with us very honestly, except, like all other Indians, and the itinerant retailers of fish in London, they asked sometimes twice, and sometimes thrice as much for their commodities as they would take. As what they brought to market, belonged, in different proportions, to a considerable number of the natives, and it would have been difficult to purchase it in separate lots, they found out a very easy expedient with which every one was satisfied: they put all that was bought of one kind, as plantains, or cocoa-nuts, together, and when we had agreed for the heap, they divided the money that was paid for it, among those of whose separate property it consisted, in a proportion corresponding with their contributions. Sometimes, indeed, they changed our money, giving us 240 doits, amounting to five shillings for a Spanish dollar, and ninety-six, amounting to two shillings, for a Bengal rupee. They all speak the Malay language, though they have a language of their own, different both from the Malay and the Javanese. Their own language they call _Catta Gunung_, the language of the mountains; and they say that it is spoken upon the mountains of Java, whence their tribe originally migrated, first to Mew Bay, and then to their present station, being driven from their first settlement by tygers, which they found too numerous to subdue. I have already observed, that several languages are spoken by the native Javenese, in different parts of their island; but when I say that the language of these people is different from the Javenese, I mean that it is different from the language which is spoken at Samarang, a place that is distant only one day’s journey from the residence of the emperor of Java. The following is a list of corresponding words in the languages of Prince’s Island, Java, and Malacca. English. _Prince’s _Javanese._ _Malay._ Island._ _A man_, Jalma, Oong Lanang, Oran Lacki Lacki. _A woman_, Becang, Oong Wadong, Parampuan. _A child_, Oroculatacke, Lari, Anack. _The head_, Holo, Undass, Capalla. _The nose_, Erung, Erung, Edung. _The eyes_, Mata, Moto, Mata. _The ears_, Chole, Cuping, Cuping. _The teeth_, Cutock, Untu, Ghigi. _The belly_, Beatung, Wuttong, Prot. _The backside_, Serit, Celit, Pantat. _The thigh_, Pimping, Poopoo, Paha. _The knee_, Hullootoor, Duncul, Lontour. _The leg_, Metis, Sickil, Kauki. _A nail_, Cucu, Cucu, Cucu. _A hand_, Langan, Tangan, Tangan.