ENGLISH. MALAY. MALAGASY. crocodile buáya voáya.[1] bone tulang taolang. (Bets. fly lálat lálitra. fruit búa vóa. ground tánah tány. grow támboh mi-tombo. hand tángan tángana. (Bets. heaven lángit langitra. (Bets. hang gantong mi-hantona. fear tákut tahotra. moon bolan vólana. stone bátu váto. year tahun táona. spirits túaka tóaka. mosquito nya-mók móka. two dúa róa. four ámpat éfat-ra. six ánam énina. ten sa-puloh folo. twenty dua-puloh roa-polo. thousand sa-riba arivo. Footnote 1: The o in Malagasy is pronounced like the Italian u. This arrangement was a fatal mistake in the early writers of the language; and is calculated to mislead any one outside the island. Hova ought to have been written Húva. In their structure and government the two languages resemble one another: but the Malay seems a less formed and complete tongue than the Malagasy. Both languages have the inclusive and exclusive pronouns: and the same form is used in the nominative and objective cases. In both reduplication is common. The prefixes through which the verb is conjugated, though differing slightly in form, constantly bear the same meaning in Malay as in Malagasy and are used in the same way. In both cases the same sort of improvement was needed: and came from the same source. The Arab traders gave to each people the names of the days of the week and of the months of the year. The scales for weighing money are Arabic, mizán. The word for writing, sóratra, seems Arabic also. Additional improvement to the Malagasy came from their intercourse with the French, who in the course of many years’ visits to the coasts of the island, introduced new articles to their notice, which are still called by their French names. At least seventy French words have become naturalised in Malagasy and that in very curious fashion. The young Malagasy now sits upon a _seza_, in front of _látábat-ra_; his rice is brought from the _lákozy_, and he eats his beef with a _fórisét-y_. He wipes his face with a _mósara_, washes his hands with _sávona_, and dries them on a _sáriveta_. He keeps his clothes in a _lálamóra_ (armoire); rides forth on his _soavály_; and wears patent-leather _bóty_. * * * * *