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ABSTRACT OF

ABSTRACT OF
EVANGELICAL ExERqIoNs IN .ASrA"
No ". Continued.
Containing condensed history Of modem Trans
la,ions o. he Scripfl'es INTO The Language
If Asie.
Il will be convenient to arrange the re-
n.ining part of The Abstract OF this number
under the following heads.
1. Stations At which trsnslstiaas have been
conducted, win the agents employed in
them, sht the languages into which they
have undertaken to translate.
IL The progress made both in trarsistiBg
and nrint,nr, with view OF the population
-yhjci, the several TRANSACTIONS vii benefit
III. Some general and miscellaneous OBJ.
servations I
|. Slstions At which trarslations have
been conducted, with the agents employed
in them, aud the Languages into which they
have undertaken to translate.
{ OF the trsnslation of the Scriptures into
Tsmul by 2 egenbale at Tranquebsr in 1919,
and into the sstern Malay in 1853 under
the direction of Governor Mossel Ut Batavia,
some account has already been given. In
this catalogue, therefore, they will be omit
ted.
Al Seran,oore on the Canges few miles
above Calcutta ~ the chief seat of the Rap.
list Mission, aad Of the trsnslaion of the
Scriptures into the languages of Eastern
Asia The labors of Drs. Carey and Marsh.
man At this station are well known. From
the last accounts it sppesrs, that they and
their associates had the charge of tsveiSe
~ q.
the others progressing, in the folio wing Ian.
guages, viz.
Shanscrit, Tclinga,
Chinese, Carnata,
Bengalee, Seek Tor Shikh,)
Orisss, Csshmire,
Mshratta, Assam, s.
hindee, Push,o, or afghan
The Hndee, mentioned in this catalogue,
Is the same Ne he Hindos,anee according
10 the Shansc Il !" and see ms 10 be 90 de
nominated 10 distinguish j, from another
persion into Hindostanee, which is in dis-
iect that leans to the Pcrsisn The transla.
tons into Guezerattee aud Nepsls, which
are mentioned In previous sccounts, seem
10 have been discontinued And il is doubs.
full whether fhe Telinga is translated ~ the
Baptist Missionaries, or whether they
have the charge Of print.ng only. Indeed
1t is most probable, tEst this is the trans.
htion Of Nc Desgranges and his cosd-
tutors, Of which an account will be CIV
en- hereafter.
II connection with the TRANSACTIONS, which
are conducted a, sefsmpore, should he mas-
toned that which is going on at Rangoos in.
to the Blrman Language This is supern.
tended BY the Bsb,ist Missionaries at that
place. one of whom s son of DR.. Carey.
The College Of Fort William at Calcuea has
shared largely in the work of Translation.
From IFS ffst establishment IL 1900 there
wss department for transls,ing the Scrip.
lures into the various Oriental tongues and
IN less than Ave years ito distinguished Foun.
der, the Msrqus Wellesley, had asse nbied
frsm diiiereai parts of India. Pefsia, and
Arabs, and attached to the Ctilege, r-ore
tan one humid ed learned natives; ard, in
the presence Ct that venerable BODY of Asis-
aiics he Christian Soriptaees were exhibit.
ed Foe translation into the languages Of he
East The design was 10 combine The diff.
tsfeni exefl,ons, WHICH were mixing isto
one Effort. and TO render he College The
crntre OF all the TRANSACTIONS for Eastern a
Sa. THIS design WIS frustrated. in q great
measure, by the reduction of The College es
Enlistment which took place in the begin
ning ofiS07. Before this time. however,
considerable progress had been made IN
three trsnslations viz. into tue Persiap by
Leu' Col. Colebrooke into the H,naos-
,anee BY VIM Hunter Esq; and into the
western Malay BY Thomas Jarrett. Esq all
o. whom were under The patronage OF the
sollege' Itappears also, that the Orissa 8.
Mahratta transls,ions tho they are enurner-
s.ed among these, which being 70 the Mis-
Nonaries at Sersmpcrs, were commenced
me College. For DR.. Buchanan, speak
ing OF the FIVE isnSusgrs," which were
ransh''ngthere, expressly ssys, " the Cos.
pels we're Translated INFO the Orissa Ian
snsge by Pooroosh Ram, the Orissa Pundit
ana mo the Mehra',s language by Vydyu
fNh' he MshIa,,s Pundit, under The super.
t'endance OF DIR. william Carey" DR..
vrey,,i' will he remembered, was Teach.
II IN the College a',thst time.
IN 1910 the College again became foun.
Wv m 'rsnsls,ion. In March of hat year,
;ohn G. Leyden, M y. Professor Of Him.
ros.nee offered to conduct trsnslstions Of
sae scrff'ul d into tie seven following LAM
gasBcs, viz. The
Afghan or Push,o.
Csshmirisn or Rakheng,
Jaghatsc,
Sismese,
Bngis,
MscAssar, and
M.ldivian.
io'o I'VE of these he CONNIE n~ed trsnsla.
.ons OF The New Testament. lhe progress
mace IN them before his death which hap.
pen'a 70 The islfnd Of Java in 1911. will be
noticed here si,er.