With a view to eventually carrying out the pro gramme set forth in the Preface to the First Volume, I have asked my missionary brethren to draw up for this series each a grammar and vocabulary of the language of the people amongst Whom he labours, and as to Which he is the highest European authority They have cordially responded, and the present volume contains those received. The matter hero presented is entirely new, though on languages of a family that has long excited the keenest interest.

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