Note 102 — PART II. CONTAINING THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA, AND THE HISTORY OF THE TRANSACTIONS AND COMMERCE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA.

Bayer, in his Museum Sinicum, gives several curious instances of the Chinese mode of articulating those sounds, which they have not in their own language. For instance they change B D R X Z into P T L S S.

Thusfor Maria they say Ma-li-ya;

for crux, cu-lu-su;

for baptizo, pa-pe-ti-so;

for cardinalis, kia-ul-fi-na-li-su;

for spiritus, su-pi-li-tu-su;

for Adam, va-tam;

for Eva, nge-va;

for Christus, ki-li-su-tu-su;

Hoc, est, corpus, meum—ho-ke, nge-su-tu, co-ul-pu-su, me-vum.

Bayer, Mus. Sin. Tom. I. p. 15.