134 7h'a) isactioi is. 



Society Islands; a waoo, Marquesas ; wi7'(?(>, Easter Island; /alu, Rotti; 

 fa^au^ Ooepang, etc. 



The radical exceptions are : — ddapan, JMalay ; (Vluppan, Acheen ; delapoon, 

 Rejang ; delapan, Prince's Island ; sai/a, Kayan ; ka/ar, Vialo ; wo ah, Kissa ; 

 karua, Arm, etc. 



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 ; sii/avi, Tagala ; 

 slam, Papango ; seaoin, Mindanao ; salo, Savn ; siwa, Isle of Moses ; smoa, 

 New Guinea ; siou, Papua ; yerou, Isle of Cocos ; heeoa, Friendly Islands ; 

 iva, Society and Sandwich Islands ; a eeva, Marquesas ; heeva, Easter Island ; 

 sm, Rotti ; seu, Coepang ; siiva, Yialo ; iva siawa, Tenimbar ; au siu, Iveli. 



The exceptions are as follows : — samhllan, Malay ; sa hoorong, Acheen ; 

 sembilan, Rejang ; salapun, Prince's Island ; songo, Java ; o teeo, Coram ; 

 pitan, Kayan ; wohi, Kissa ; ter'i, 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; 

 fooloo, Malagasi ; sapidoo, Malay ; saploo, Acheen ; ^jooloo, Lampong ; sapoo 

 loo, Batta, de pooloo, Rejang ; sapoulo, Prince's Island ; supoulo, Java ; pido, 

 Tagala ; apalo, Papango ; san poido, Mindanao ; singooroo, Isle of Savu ; 

 o pooloo, Ceram ; sanga poulo, Isle of Moses ; sanga foula, New Guinea ; 

 on ge foula. Isle of Cocos; angofooroo, Friendly Islands; houlhoa. Sandwich 

 and Society Islands ; tvhanna hoo, Marquesas ; attu hooroo, Easter Island ; 

 sanga hulu, Rotti ; pulo, Kayan. 



The radical exceptions are:- — ho es, Coepang; ta ana, Yialo; ita well, 

 Kissa ; aluU, Tenimbar; wut, Keh, etc. 



It 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 the 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 ishind 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 ado})ting the dental, the latter the 

 sibilant. Again, the numerals of the principal races of the Philippines, viz.. 



