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twenty nine days, which approaches nearly to the real length of a 



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If their year has but twelve months, it contains only 



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lunation. 



34§days; but if the thirteenth be added, it confifls of 377 days 5 

 in the firfl cafe, the year is 17 days too fhort, and in the fecond, 

 it exceeds the folar year by twelve days. This circumftance leads 

 me to fufpe(5t, that they have fome method of harmonizing the 

 folar and lunar year unknown to us. What is more "remarkable, 



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I found that every one of the 29 days of the month has a peculiar 

 name, which they have in common with the Perfians, 



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appropriate to each day of the month a particular name. 



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month begins from the firfl appearance of the new moon, and 

 after the 28th and 29th day of the month, they added that the 

 moon was dead, marama-matte, which proves that their months 



by no means confift exadly of 29 day 



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fometimes 30, and fometimes 29 days only, according "as the new 



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moon makes her appearance fooner or later : for if they reckoa 



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fourth month Oohee-eiya has certauily a reference to angling for fjh. The eighth month 

 O'Te-dree^ i^ thxas c^Xlcdi horn i\it yaiing cocc-nuis^ which probably are then moil: plentifuh 

 The nuith month 0'Te-iat\ alludes to the fea* The eleventh Wa^ahou^ to their 

 cloth^ and the twelfth 'PipirreCj to fome con^etou/nefs or fcafitinefs^ perhaps \\\ food. The 



words included in parenthe/ifes are the various readhigs of the name, havuig heard it pronounced 



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byanother perfon in a different manner. 



