HoNGi.— Maori Numeratioii . 



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Table C — continued. 



Kia vva.ru nga tekau 



Kia ivva nga tekaii 



Kia kotahi to rau 



Kia nia nga rau 



Kia torn nga rau 



Kia wha nga rau 



Kia rima nga rau 



Kia ono nga rau 



Kia wliitu nga rau 



Kia warn nga rau 



Kia iwa nga rau 



Kia iwa nga rau, kia iwa nga tekau, 



ma -iwa 

 Kia kotahi te mano 

 Kia mano tini . . 

 Kia kotahi te mano tuarea 

 Kia mano tini whaioio 

 Kia ngea, kia ngea, kia ngea 



Let there be eight tens 

 ,, nine ton-i 



= 80 

 90 



the one himdred 100 

 the two hundreds 200 

 the three liundreds 3(Xt 

 the four hundreds 400 

 the tive himdreds 600 

 the six hrmdreds COO 

 the seven himdreds 700 

 the eight hundreds 800 

 the nine hiindi'eds 900 

 the nme hundreds, 999 



nine tens, and nino 

 the one thousand 1 .000 

 thousands innumerable, 

 one thousand thousands, 

 countless thousands, 

 inconceivable — myriads. 



The next vowel whose processes we may consider is o. As a numeral 

 prefix, appears in ho, toko, and hoko. In each case it speaks exclusively 

 of persons, of personal doings, and of personal possessions. In progressive 

 numeration ko is used with an article, giving to its numeral the sense of an 

 ordinal of the personal element. 



In proceeding to discuss the allied prefixes toko and hoko it is necessary 

 to bear in mind that we are considering various clearly defined methods of 

 progressive numeration. Those who have read the article under notice, by 

 Mr. Best, are doubtless aware that he himself had this object in view. Now, 

 on page 152 Mr. Best sets out a table in which the numeral prefix toko sub- 

 stantially operates. In that table unity of method is completely destroyed 

 by the intrusion of the initial term kotahi and the final term tekau, neither 

 of which is proper to it. Apparently in justification of the kotahi, Mr. Best 

 writes, " During a residence of eleven years' duration among the Tuhoe 



