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COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY 



English. 



Fijian. 



New Zealand. 



Five 



Lima 



Rima or Lima 



Six 



Ono 



Ono 



Seven 



Vetu 



White 



Eight 



Walu 



Warn 



Nine 



Thiwa 



Iwa 



Ten 



Sangavulu 



Tahi tekau (*) 



Twenty 



Rua sagavulu 



Erua te kau ( 2 ) 



Thirty 



Tolo sagavulu 



Eteru te kau ( 3 ) 



One hundred 



Drau 



Tahi te pou 



One thousand 



Undolu 

 Omba 





Ten thousand 









0) = One Tally. 

 ( 2 )=Two Tallies. 

 ( 3 )=Three Tallies. 



NOTE by Mr. THURSTON. 



The Fijians are certainly of the same stock as the Black Tribes 

 of the Peninsula, although frequent crossing with people of the 

 Malayan type — especially Tongans — has produced a considerable 

 change in their physical appearance and in their language. This 

 admixture is, as might be expected, most apparent upon the coasts. 

 In the mountain parts of Vite Levu (an island about the size of 

 Jamaica) the natives are, judging from description (Journal No. 5, 

 p. 155) like the Semangs of Ijoh. Tike those people, the Fijians 

 wear small tufts or corkscrews of hair, of which they are very 

 proud, but instead of "jamue" they call these tufts "taumbi." 



