R O T U M A. 



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The following are the numerals both in their simple and in their construct form. 



to 



rua 



Qdu 



hake (heke) 



lima 



ono 



hi&u 



valu (walu) 



siva (siwa) 



saghulu or pohe (?) 



CONSTRUCT. 



ta (f) or esea 

 rua 

 Qol 

 h&k 

 liam 

 on 

 hid 

 wal 

 siaw 1 

 sayhul 

 saphul Quma tehe 

 sayhul Quma tehe rua (?) 

 sayhul Ouma tehe Qol 

 sa-ghul Quma tehe h&k, &c. 

 ruayhulu or ruaijhid or pohe rua 

 Qolayhulu or Qoluayhul or pohe Qol 

 hakaghulu or hakeayhul or pohe hak 

 tarou or tarau 

 tarou rua 

 tarou Qol 

 tarou h&k or hik 

 heftf or kimanmana 

 hef-rua or kimanmarua 

 hef-Qol or kimanmaQol 

 kiuf or kimanman-sa-ghul 



one 



two 



three 



four 



five 



six 



seven 



eight 



nine 



ten 



eleven 



twelve 



thirteen 



fourteen 



twenty 



thirty 



forty, &c. 



hundred 



two hundred 



three hundred 



four hundred, &c. 



one thousand 



two thousand 



three thousand, &c. 



ten thousand 



The numbers above this are merely multiples of the preceding, and there seemed to 

 be some uncertainty in the mode of forming them. Some of the preceding may not be 

 entirely correct, as the natives differed among themselves with regard to them. It is 

 possible, however, that there may be different modes of counting appropriated to different 

 objects. The use of Quma in the numbers between ten and twenty is exactly the same 

 as that of tuma in Hawaiian ; the tehe which follows it was perhaps a mistake, and may 

 properly belong only to theTiumber eleven. When these numbers are joined to nouns, 

 Quma is omitted, and the noun repeated in its place ; as, Qa-sayhul ma Qat\ eleven 

 men ; Q& sa-ghul ma Qa rua, twelve men, &c. 



The particle he sometimes intervenes between the noun and the numeral, though the 

 rule according to which it is inserted or omitted is not apparent ; as, sere, knife, ser' he 

 rua, two knives, ser' 1 he Qol, three knives ; kakai esea, one finger, kakai he rua, two 

 fingers ; uhi, yam, uK ma, two yams, uK Qol, three yams. 



PRONOUNS. 

 The personal pronouns, as far as they could be determined, were as follows : 



