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| Title | Memoirs of a Malayan family Oriental Translation Fund Volume 11 of Publications, Oriental Translation Fund Volume 11 of Oriental translation fund. Publications |
| Authors | Nakhodā Mūda, 'La-uddı̄n |
| Translated by | William Marsden |
| Publisher | Printed for the Oriental translation fund, sold by J. Murray, 1830 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 88 pages |
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