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Society Islands; a waco, Marquesas; varoo, Easter Island ; Jalu; Rotti; 
Jw au, Coepang, ete. 
The radical exceptions are :—delapan, Malay ; d'luppan, Acheen ; delapoon, 
Rejang ; delapan, Prince’s Island ; saya, Kayan ; kafar, Vialo ; wo ah, Kissa ; 
karua, Arru, ete. 
There is the same degree of accordance in the expression of the numeral 
“nine” that there is in seven and eight, as the following examples will show :— 
eeva, Maori ; seeva, Malagasi ; seewah, Lampong ; seeah, Batta ; siyam, Tagala ; 
stam, Papango; seaow, Mindanao ; saio, Savu ; siwa, Isle of Moses; siwa, 
New Guinea; siou, Papua; yerou, Isle of Cocos; heeoa, Friendly Islands ; 
Wwa, Society and Sandwich Islands ; a eeva, Marquesas ; heeva, Easter Island ; 
siu, Rotti ; sew, Coepang ; siwa, Vialo ; wa siawa, Tenimbar ; au siu, Keh. 
The exceptions are as follows :—sambilan, Malay ; sa koorong, Acheen ; 
sembilan, Rejang ; salapun, Prince’s Island ; songo, Java; o teeo, Ceram ; 
pitan, Kayan ; wohi, Kissa ; teri, Arru. 
The number “ten” is nearly as common to all the Barata races as the 
numeral five, and it is only in the Timor group that radical differences take 
place, as will be seen from following examples : — Anga hourou, Maori ; 
Jooloo, Malagasi ; sapuloo, Malay ; saploo, Acheen ; pooloo, Lampong ; sapoo 
loo, Batta, de pooloo, Rejang ; sapoulo, Prince’s Island ; supoulo, Java; pulo, 
Tagala ; apalo, Papango; san poulo, Mindanao ; singooroo, Isle of Savu ; 
o pooloo, Ceram ; sanga poulo, Isle of Moses; sanga foula, New Guinea ; 
on ge foula, Isle of Cocos ; ango fooroo, Friendly Islands ; howlhoa, Sandwich 
and Society Islands ; kas hoo, Marquesas ; attu hooroo, Easter Island ; 
sanga hulu, Rotti ; pulo, Kayan. 
The radical exceptions are :— ho es, Coepang; ta ana, Vialo; ita weli, 
Kissa ; aluli, Tenimbar ; wut, Keh, ete. 
Tt will be seen that in numerals radically similar the variations have been 
principally caused by the conversion of sibilants, dentals, aspirates, and palatals 
into each other, or by the dropping of the whole, the vowel sounds remaining 
radically alike. 
In the general view of the question, as elucidated by the facts before us, it 
will at once be observed that the numerals of the most distant races and the more 
remote interior and uncivilized tribes of the Eastern Archipelago are the most 
similar. Thus, admitting that thé sibilant is convertible into the dental, as ta 
into sa, the Maori and great groups of far Eastern Polynesia have numerals 
identical with the great island of Madagascar. A remote race in the interior 
of the great island of Sumatra, viz., the Lampong, has numerals identical 
with Maori; while another in the same island, viz., the Batta, has numerals 
identical with the Malagasi—the former adopting the dental, the latter the 
Malet Again, the numerals of the principal races of the Philippines, viz., 
