[29]

M is here a Suāhili prefix. See Bleek's Comp. Grammar, 189.

[30]

This word takes a ludicrous form in Dampier: "All the Indians who spake Malayan ... lookt on those Meangians as a kind of Barbarians; and upon any occasion of dislike, would call them Bobby, that is Hogs."—i. 515.

[31]

["Mr Burke's method of pronouncing it.">[

[32]

At Lord Wellesley's table, Major Malcolm mentioned as a notable fact that he and three of his brothers had once met together in India. "Impossible, Malcolm, quite impossible!" said the Governor-General. Malcolm persisted. "No, no," said Lord Wellesley, "if four Malcolms had met, we should have heard the noise all over India!"

[33]

See Chinese Recorder, 1876, vii. 324, and Kovalefski's Mongol Dict. No. 1058.