CORRECTIONS AND REMARKS. Hi 



the four persons in the dual and plural, (we mean 

 the double first person, of which the one includes, 

 and the other excludes, the person addressed.) The 

 pronouns of the dual are formed of the roots of 

 those of the plurals, and of the number two. All 

 appear, in the dialect of New Zealand, more simple 

 and more concentrated than in the dialect of 

 Tonga, where every person has several pronouns 

 of different uses. These pronouns, and particularly 

 those of the twofold first person of the plural, 

 must be the most difficult part of the language for 

 a foreigner, what he last conceives and makes 

 himself master of. Being an essential part of the 

 Malay language, they may, perhaps, exist in all 

 the dialects of Eastern Polynesia, and we now^ 

 believe we have done wrong in omitting, as 

 dubious, in the dialect of Owhyee, the pronoun of 

 the third person, which Lisianskoy mentions. It is 

 Oyera, which coincides with ly-a, Malay j SiyUy 

 Tagalog ; /«, Tonga and New Zealand. 



The particles which mark the time and mode 

 of the action, are different in the dialects of Tonga, 

 New Zealand, and Owhyee. 



It is very far from easy to find out the 

 arithmetical system of a people. It is at New 

 Zealand, as at Tonga, the decimal system. What 

 may, perhaps, have deceived Mr. Kendall, at the 

 beginning, in his first attempt in Nicolas's voy- 

 age, and which we followed, is the custom of the 

 New Zealanders to count things by pairs. The 



