628 



T ransaction^ . 



Ka rima nga tekaxi 

 Ka rima tekau ma-tahi 

 Ka rima tekau ma-iwa 

 Ka ono nga tekau 

 Ka ono tekau ma-tahi 

 Ka ono tekau ma-iwa 

 Ka whitu nga tekau 

 Ka whitu tekau ma-tahi 

 Ka whitu tekaii ma-iwa 

 Ka waru nga tekau 

 Ka waru tekau ma-tahi 

 Ka waru tekau ma-iwa 

 Ka iwa nga tekau 

 Ka iwa tekau ma-talii 

 Ka iwa tekau ma-iwa 

 Ka kotahi te rau 

 Ka kotahi te rau ma-tahi 

 Ka kotahi te rau ma-iwa 

 Ka kotahi te rau, ka 



kotahi te tekau 

 Ka rau, ka kotahi te 



tekau ma-tahi 

 Ka rau, ka kotahi te- 

 kau ma-iwa 

 Ka kotahi te rau, ka 

 rua nga tekau 



Table A — continued. 



That makes the five tens = 50 



five tens and one 51 

 five tens and nine 59 

 the six tens 60 



six tens and one 61 

 six tens and nine 69 

 the seven tens 70 



seven tens and one 71 

 seven tens and nine 79 

 the eight tens 80 



eight tens and one 81 

 eigiit tens and nine 89 

 the nine tens 90 



nine tens and one 91 

 nine tens and nine 99 

 the one himdred 100 

 That makes the one liundred and one 101 

 ,, one hundred and nine 109 



That makes the one hundred and the one ten 110 



,, one himdred, one ton, and one 111 



,, one hundred, ten, and nine 119 



,, the one hundred and the two tens 120 



simply linking up the units to the tens'and 

 a thousand is reached. I will now, therefore, 



That makes the two himdreds = 200 



So the process goes on, by 

 the tens to the hundreds, until 

 merely set up the hundreds : — 



Ka rua nga rau 



Ka torn nga rau 



Ka wha nga rau 



Ka rima nga rau 



Ka ono nga rau 



Ka whitu nga rau 



Ka waru nga rau 



Ka iwa nga rau 



Ka iwa nga rau, ka iwa nga tekau 



ma-iwa 

 Ka kotahi te mano 

 Ka mano 

 Ka mano tini . . 

 Ka mano tuarea 

 Ka mano tini whaioio 

 Ka ngea, ka ngea, ka ngea 



In that method the uses of the numeral prefix ha are fully shown. It 

 will be observed that after a hundred is reached ha is used both before 

 the hundred and before its accompanying ten. The articles are used in a 

 precisely similar way, on the principle that an article must appear before 

 each substantive in a sentence — as, Te waha me nga hoe = the canoe and 

 the paddles. 



It is interesting to note that the Natives of Easter Island use identically 

 the same ha numeral prefix method, including its repetition in a single 

 sentence, and its process from the lowest number — ha-tahi = one — to the 

 very highest, in a table of progressive numeration. The dialect of this 

 branch of the race appears to approach Maori very closely — much more so 

 than that of any other branch. In a publication issued by the United 

 States Government, entitled " Report of National Museum, 1889," speci- 

 mens of this dialect are given, and its concluding page contains a table 



