11.
Buah sĕntul buah kĕchapi;
Kĕpala gondol di makan api.
Sĕntul and kĕchapi fruit:
A bald top consumed by fire.
A rhyming skit on a bald head.
12.
Minyak sanyong-nyong tanak di bělanga běsi:
Hang nyom mai aku nyom pi.
Sanyong-nyong oil boiled in an iron pot:
Come smiling to me and I will go smiling to you.
A facetious remark put in the form of a charm for inducing a meeting between a man and a maid.
Bishop G. F. Hose.
Since the last Journal passed into the press the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society has lost its senior member, the Right Reverend George Frederick Hose, who died at Normandy near Guildford, Surrey, on March the 26th. Born on September 3rd, 1838, he became Chaplain of Malacca in 1868, Archdeacon of Singapore in 1874, and Bishop of Singapore, Labuan and Sarawak in 1881. He retired in 1908. While Archdeacon of Singapore our Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society was founded by his efforts; and he was our first President. An account of his work in the East will be found in the 54th part of the Journal.
He was one of those who chose the Branch's name: but before his death he had given approval to the change whereby we become the Malayan Branch;—a change which will take place with the first of next year, so that this Journal is the last that will appear under the familiar title. The series which it concludes may be dedicated appropriately to his memory.
