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Romae, 1631, gives: "Campon coniunctio, vel 1785:-"To be sold by Private Sale............. conuentus. Hinc viciniae, et parua loca, campon A very large Upper-roomed House, with extenetiam appellantur." And in Marsden's Malaysive godowns and outhouses, with a large com. Dictionary we have: "Kampong, an enclosure, a pound."-Seton-Karr, vol. I. p. 109. place surrounded with a paling; a fenced or "To be let......a handsome roomy house near fortified village; a quarter, district, or suburb the Esplanade, enclosed by a spacious uniform of a city; a collection of buildings. Mem-búat | Compound."-Ibid, p. 113. [to make) rumah (house] serta dañgan [together 1788 :-"Compound -The court-yard belonging with] Kampong-nia Kampong thereof), to erect to a house. A corrupt word." The Indian Vocaa house with its endosure......... Ber-kampong, to bulary, London, Stockdale. assemble, come together; mengampong to collect, 1810 :-" The houses (at Madras) are usually to bring together," p. 267. The Reverse Dic- surrounded by a field or compound, with a few tionary gives: " YARD, alaman, Kampong," p. 588. trees and shrubs, but it is with incredible pains
In Crawfurd's : " Kampung ......an enclosure, & that flowers or fruit are raised." -Maria Graham, space fenced in; a villago; a quarter or subdivision p. 124. of a town."
"When I entered the great gates, and looked In Pijnappel (Maleisch-Hollandisch Woordenboek, around from my palankeen......... and when I 1875): "Kampoeng-Omheind in Erf, Wijk, Buurt, bebeld the beauty and extent of the compound...... Kamp," i. e. "Ground hedged round, village, I thought that I was no longer in the world that hamlet, camp."
I had left in the East."-An account of Bengal, In P. Jansz (Javaansch-Nederlandsch Woorden- and of a visit to the Government House, by Ibrahim boek, Samarang, 1876): “Kampoeng- omheind erf the son of Candu the Merchant" (in the above, van woningen; wijk die onder één hoofd staat,"| p. 198). This is a Malay narrative translated by i.e. "enclosed ground of dwellings; village which Dr. Leyden. Very probably the word rendered is under one head man."
compound was kampung, but that cannot be asThese definitions confirm my own impressions, certained. received in the Straits and in Java, that the essen- Circa 1817:4" When they got into the comtial idea of the word kampung is enclosure;' and pound, they saw all the ladies and gentlemen in that even in its application to a village the proper the verandah, waiting." -Mrs. Sherwood's Stories, sense is a group of houses in one ward or enclosure, forming perhaps a portion of a village. A 1824 :-" He then proceeded to the rear com. friend who held office in the Straits for twenty pound of the house, returned, and said It is a years assures me that the word kampung is habi- tiger, Sir.'"-Seely, Wonders of Ellora, ch. I. tually used, in the Malay there spoken, as the 1860:- Villas, each in its compound of flowers." equivalent of the Anglo-Indian compound.' -Tennent, vol. II. p. 146.
It is not, I think, difficult to suppose that the We have lately found this word singularly word, if its use originated in our Malay settle- transformed, in a passage extracted from a recent ments, should have spread to the continental novel :presidencies, and so over India. Our factories 1977 :-"When the Rebellion broke out at other in the Archipelago were older than any of our stations in India, I left our own compost"-Satursettlements in India Proper. The factors and day Review, Feb. 3, 1877, p. 148. "A little learn. writers were frequently moved about, and it is ing is a dangerous thing." conceivable that a word so much wanted (for no Doar, interj.-properly (Hindi) dúhd a word English word does express the idea satisfactorily) of obscure etymology, which is shouted aloud by a should have found ready acceptance. Perhaps it petitioner for redress (something like the Haro ! of is not impossible that kampung was itself a cor- the Channel Islanders), as the great man passes ruption of the Portuguese campo, a camp'; and who is supposed to have it in his power to render thence an enclosed area. The Chinese quarter at the justice sought. Every Englishman in Northern Batavia-kampong Tzina-is commonly called in India has been saluted by the calls of Dind'! Dutch "het Chinesche Kamp" or "het Kamp Khuda wand! ("Justice, my lord I") Daha'( Mahdder Chinezen." Campagne seems hardly appli.
raj! Dahdi Company Bab&dur! "Justice, O King! cable; at least, nothing like this sense is found Justice, O Company!" perhaps in consequence of among the seven or eight classes of meaning some oppression of his followers, perhaps in reassigned to the word in Littré. (H. Y.)
ference to some grievance which he has no power 1772 :-" Yard (before or behind a house), to redress. Ibn Batuta relates (vol. III. p. 412) Aungaun. Commonly called a Compound."-Voca- that it was the custom in India for a creditor of a bulary in Hadley's Grammar, p. 129.
courtier who would not pay his debts to watch at
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