ABSTRACT
The list of words and phrases contained in this article is one of ten manuscript vocabularies bound up in a volume lettered K Kw Y Y which forms part of the collection of Chinese books made by the well-known missionary, Morrison, and has been deposited on permanent loan by University College, London, in the Library of the School of Oriental Studies. All its contents are in Chinese characters, some of which are used in their proper senses to indicate the meanings, and others to serve as phonetic transcriptions, of the foreign words explained. Owing to the limitations of the Chinese phonetic system, these transcriptions are often imperfect and ambiguous, and that is one source of uncertainty in the identification of the Malay words in the list here published. The earliest historical date connected with Malacca is 1403, when a mission was sent from China to visit it and open up diplomatic relations.
