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concurrent, prior, or succeeding events. These I have sufficiently touched on 
in my former paper, and therefore need not do so here. 
Thus I hope I have satisfactorily shown that the first ten numerals, in as 
far as their evidence is valuable, tend to prove the intimate connection that 
subsisted between an archaic race that spread over nearly two-thirds of the 
circumference of the globe—and in which expansion the Malay had no 
connection—but the ethnological phenomenon was due solely to the illustrious 
Barata. 
For the native numerals I am indebted to the labours of Captain Cook, 
Windsor-Earle, and Burns. 
Norr.—Since the above was written I have had an opportunity of 
perusing the vocabulary of numerals given at the end of Mr. Wallace’s 
admirable work on the Malay Archipelago. The vocabulary is confined 
principally to the Molucca and adjacent groups, and is entirely confirmatory 
of my previous observations. 
The vocabulary is of thirty-three languages or dialects, and in regard to 
the numeral one, 23 belong to the archaic Barata; of the numeral two, 29 ; 
three, 27; four, 30; five, 31; six, 28; seven, 28; eight, 21; nine, 27; 
ten, 14 
It has already been stated that the Malay numerals three, seven, eight, and 
nine differ from the Barata and its offshoots, and in this vocabulary only one 
tribe is found to copy the Malay in the numerals three, eight, and nine, while 
only two tribes copy it in the numeral seven ; another proof of its slight claim 
to its generally received paternity of Polynesia and Madagascar. 
Art. XV.— Notes on the Stone Epoch at the Cape of Good Hope.* 
By B. H. DARNELL. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 28th August, 1872.] 
Some new facts have turned up respecting this subject within the last year or — 
two. Diamonds were first found on the surface over a large area. Then 
followed the diggings in the beds of rivers and their banks; these are the 
wet diggings. Then diamonds were found in the diorites and amygdaloids 
where these swell up into what are called “ koppies,” small round hills like 
heads (Dutch kop) , these are the dry diggings. Lastly they were found in 
_ the “Pans,” which are reed-bound circular depressions in the surface, filled 
with limestone (mainly carbonate of lime) a few feet in thickness. These 
_. Pans are quite a feature in this part of the country, and generally hold water 
a after the rainy Season. _In them fragments of ostrich shells, stone implements, 
o o See Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV., p. 157. 
