..., and the English and other Europeans used various languages to communicate in trading relations with the East. In Southeast Asia (the “East Indies”), Malay was a significant early modern lingua franca. This study examines the circumstances under which the Dutch explorer Frederick de Houtman came to write...

... . Houtman Frederick de . 1605 . Spraeck ende woord-boeck, inde Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen met vele Arabische ende Turcsche woorden (Dialogues and Dictionary, in the Malay and Madagascar Languages with Many Arabic and Turkish Words) . Amsterdam : Cloppenburch . Hurles Matthew E...

..., in several Malay dialects, Persian, and the pidgin Portuguese that served as a lingua franca among merchants of different nationalities in the region; because often he could dispense with translators, his version of audiences at Aurangzeb’s court, for example, offers specifics that are absent from...

... and that they "did not greatly purpose to do right," Thoreau claims "that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions, as the Chinamen and Malays are" (83). Thoreau only recognizes his new and higher position against the backdrop of a racist depiction of the Amass of men;" Thoreau...

... in reaction to the earlier attack on the Friendship by Malay pirates, Zeke among them, the equally long stretch from the pirate's pepper fields to the Dutton farm in New England comes back into play at the end of the narrative when the truth about what kind of man of affairs Ezekiel had become springs...

....” In In the Hands of the Malays and Other Stories, 149 – 76. London: Blackie, books.google.com/books ?id=Z4JWAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.  . 1906. A Soldier’s Daughter and Other Stories. London: Blackie, www.archive .org/details/soldiersdaughter00hentiala. Higgins, D. S. 1980...

... it left was not agreeable. Their dull faces, without expression.. .and their half-naked, unsymmetrical bodies, more like figures of yellow clay than warm flesh and blood, filled me with an unconquerable aversion. The scowling Malay, with his dark, fiery eye, and spare but sinewy...

...-09)—and also of different national and ethnic ones: The Swede, the Russian; from the genial south The Frenchman and the Spaniard; from remote America, the Hunter-Indian; Moors, Malays, Lascars, the Tartar, the Chinese And Negro ladies in white muslin gowns. (7.224-28...

... a national language and literature but on the border in-between . She is a Canadian (Western) author of Malay-Chinese (Eastern) ethnic background writing a transpacific novel in English, with multiple use of Chinese characters (in both senses of the word), about the century-long traumatic turmoil...

..., provocative. In the Red Sea, Saris reports, Middleton tried to seduce Towerson 36. In London Spalding ingratiated himself by dedicating his Dialogues in the English and Malaiane Languages (1614), the first Malay book printed in England (Farrington 2002, 37), to Smythe. 37. Saris 1614, f102v...