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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. 



Tor the native numerals I am indebted to the labours of Captain Cook, 

 Windsor-Earle, and Burns. 



Note. — 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 con6rmatory 

 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. — Xotes on the Stone Epoch at the Cai^e of Good Hope* 



By B. H. Darnell. 



\Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2Sth 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 ko])) , 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 w^ater 

 after the rainy season. In them fragments of ostrich shells, stone imijlements, 



* See Trcnis. N.Z. Inst., Vol. IV , p. 157. 



