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N. B. They seldom count above a 
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hundred; and when they wish to express |Old (that is, from twenty years upwards), 
a larger number than that, they do it by 
a repetition of the syllable sek (ten), 
thus : — sekiim a sek, a sek, a sek, &c. 
In counting cocoa-nuls they use the 
following numerals : — 
1, su 6, waru. 
2, guo’. 7, vishu’. 
3, saru’. 8, tii. 
4, vao. 9, wanting. 
5, limo’. 10, sek. 
mazui; very old, mazui ava’; also, 
bitch’ibtitch tchim, which literally 
means, the hair is while. 
ie 
Papa. See Mama. 
Parent. No word equivalent to this. 
People. This is expressed by adding 
pipi, many, to mari, man ; as, pipi 
a mari, many men; pipi a vaiva, many 
women. 
In speaking of any number of fishes| Pronouns : 
(ika) they would use the following nu- 
merals : — 
simiil ika, one fish. 
gwimul ika, two fishes. 
srimul ika, three ss 
vamiul ika, four 
nimil ika, five 
wawrimil ika, six 
vishi-emiul ika, seven 
wawrimul ika, eight ‘‘ 
tuimil ika, nine 
sek ika, ten 
ce 
ce 
But in the act of counting out fish, they 
proceed by pairs or couples; as, two, 
four, six, &c.* 
In counting fish-hooks they use a still 
different set of numerals, which, howey- 
er, are not recollected. 
Other examples of reckoning are the 
following : — 
suavas, one stone. 
guo karim, two birds. 
su yaru, one sun, 7. e. one day. 
guo yaru, two days. 
simul a mari, one man. 
srimul vaiva, three women. 
* So, in the Tonga Islands, in counting out 
yams and fish, they reckon by pairs or couples. 
See Mariner’s “ Tonga Islands.” 
I, myself, nang. 
thou, or you, gur.* 
he; this pronoun seems to be wanting 
in the language. 
we (you and I, or they and I), gir 
nang; and there appears to be no 
other way of expressing we. 
R. 
Rain (to); it rains, ut; it does not rain, 
or if is done raining, taw ut. 
Rats, tiim/mitim. 
Reef (of rocks), araii. 
Rind. See Cocoa-nut. 
S. 
Sand (of a shoal in the sea), pi; but it 
means simply sand. 
Sea (salt water), tat. 
See (to), oma'iga, or miagi; miagi, I 
saw, or did see. 
Shark, po. 
Sharp; yé ka’ila, i is sharpened (speak- 
ing of a piece of iron that is sharpen- 
ed); but yé ka’tla is also used thus : 
Nang yé ka‘ila, I am well, or strong. 
Ship, waw-wia. 
Short, yii-mot, or ya-mot; applied to 
persons and things. 
* In the language of the Tonga Islands, also, 
ger, pronounced giir, See Mariner’s work. 
