Note 3 — VI. LANGUAGE. (continued 2)

This story is a much more elaborate piece of composition than the last, and may be said to exhibit distinct marks of literary style. Its vocabulary is copious and varied, and it makes large use of a device which is employed in Mikir, as in Khasi,3 to give amplitude to the phrase by duplicating the leading words; nearly every important term has its doublet, with the same meaning, following it.