Page:Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks.djvu/481

Rh good; at least they dealt very fairly with us upon all occasions, Indian-like, however, always asking double what they would take for whatever they had to dispose of. But this produced no inconvenience to us, who were used to this kind of traffic. In making bargains they were very handy, and supplied the want of small money reasonably well by laying together a quantity of anything, and when the price was settled dividing it among each other according to the proportion each had brought to the general stock. They would sometimes change our money, giving 240 doits for a Spanish dollar, that is 5s. sterling, and 92, that is 2s. sterling, for a Bengal rupee. The money they chose, however, was doits in all small bargains; dubblecheys they had, but were very nice in taking them.

Their language is different both from the Malay and Javan: they all, however, speak Malay.

These specimens of languages, so near each other in situation, I choose to give together, and select the words without any previous choice, as I had written them down, that the similar and dissimilar words might equally be seen. As for the parts of the body which I have made the subject of this and all my specimens of language, I chose them in preference to all others, as the names of them are easily got from people of whose language the inquirer has not the