Art. XIV.—Formosa Notes on MSS., Races and Languages, By Terrien de Lacouperie, Ph. & Litt.D., Professor of Indo-Chinese Philology, University College, London. Including a Note on Nine Formosan MSS. by E. Colborne Baber, H.B.M. Chinese Secretary, Peking.

Abstract

The following notes, excepting a few additions in March, 1887, were written chiefly in April, 1886, at the suggestion of my excellent friend, the much-venerated scholar Col. Henry Yule, C.B., LL.D., President of the Royal Asiatic Society, after he had received from our common friend E. Colborne Baber, of H.B.M. Consular Service in China, then at Se-ul in Corea, nine sheets of manuscript secured from Formosa. These manuscripts, written in an old Pepohwan dialect, with Roman characters of Dutch origin, and, as regards several of them, bilingual with a Chinese translation, were accompanied with a valuable note of E. C. Baber, which forms a portion of the first part of the present paper.