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the bird. {Mo te koko, kia makiritia, ka 2)enei te karanga, he 

 pic koko, mo te u-iia takitahi tena karanga). 



Although I have given in Table No. 2 that form of dual 

 numeration which I believe was generally used in this 

 district, yet some of my authorities differed from it in 

 their accounts ; for instance, one man gave a different 

 method of counting from twenty-two to thirty-eight inclusive. 

 Observe : — 



20. Ngahui'u pu. 



22. Ngahuru ma tahi (ten and one; " pu " understood). 



24. „ rua ( „ two; "brace" understood). 



26. „ toru ( „ three „ ) 



28. " „ wha ( „ four „ ) 



30. „ rim a ( „ five „ ) 



32. „ ono ( „ six „ ) 



34. „ whitu ( „ seven „ ) 



36. „ waru ( „ eight „ ) 



38. „ iwa ( „ nine „ ) 



40. Hokorua. 



Here we see pairs added to ten pairs until thirty-eight was 

 reached, after which it was the same as Table No. 2 — pairs 

 added to twenties. 



Another differed in his term for twenty only, He used 

 tekato instead of ngahuru pu,, and added pairs to it as in 

 Table No. 2 — tekazi, kotahi pu (twenty-two), tekau, e rua pu 

 (twenty-four), &c. This man is one of those who maintain 

 that persons were always counted singly. He says that, when 

 speaking of persons, lioko multiplies the subjoined numeral 

 by ten only — hokorua = twenty, hokotorti = thirty, &c. — 

 while it multiplies the numeral by twenty in counting 

 game, &c. Another old Native, a man of much knowledge, 

 also maintains that hoko was used in both ways — i.e., taki- 

 tahi and takirua — which supports Williams's Dictionary. 

 Thus hokorua takitahi would be twenty, while hokorua topu 

 would stand for forty. This latter (Native) authority states 

 that if in stating a number a person simply said " Hokoioha," 

 he would be asked, " Hokoivha aha?' (Forty what?) and 

 the reply would be " Hokoioha takitahi," or " Hokoivha topu," 

 as the case might be. Also that, in using the dual method, 

 the terms hokorua, hokotoru, &c., should really be followed by 

 pu, but that it is usually omitted. Again, he states that pre- 

 fixes were often omitted — e.g., ngahuru pu, tahi pu (twenty- 

 two) ; ngahuru pu, rua pu (twenty-four), &c. — when counting. 



When, in counting his bag, a fowler found he had taken, 

 say, 105 or 107 birds, he would often wait until he had made 

 the number up to, say, 110 before returning home, to abolish 

 the taukche. 



One of my old Native authorities is confident that in 

 former times the Tuhoe people counted up to 1,000 readily, 



