LANGUAGES OF PONAPE AND HAWAII. 437 
[Mr. Doane has not discussed the use of maj in Ponape with 
the superlative. This word intensifies the quality or number 
expressed by the adjective, maj totova, very numerous indeed, 
_ majapueka, exceeding afraid. It is the same as the Duke of 
York Islands and New Britain, mat and the Florida, Solomon 
Island mata, and in these languages it is used as an intensive in 
the same way. Duke of York Jiralira mat, very white, New 
Britain [ gugw mat, he rejoices very much. The word is probably 
the common Oceanic mata, eye, face, front, also used as an adverb, 
before. | 
Part II. 
§ 10. NUMERALS. 
The numerals are distinguished in both Ponape and Hawaii as 
cardinal and ordinal. Hawaii also possesses distributive forms. 
The first ten numbers stand thus : 
CARDINAL. ORDINAL. 
Hawaii Ponape. Hawaii. Ponape. 
l. kahi at ka mua ka ati 
2. lua ari ka lua ka ari 
3. kolu ejil ka kolu ka ejil 
4. ha apong ka ha ka apong 
5. lima alim ka lima ka alim 
6. ono auon ka ono ka auon 
7. hiku a 3y ka hiku ka ej 
8. walu aual ka walu ka aual 
9. iwa atu ka iwa ka atu 
10. umi- katongaul ka umi ka tongaul 
In the formation of the ordinal, particles come into use which 
are alike in form and office. In the Hawaiian it is the definite 
article ka, in the Ponape the causative. In what we may call 
the infancy of things, both were no doubt one, but in the lapse 
of ages and wide roaming of the people from the home land they 
became possessed of different powers. One people has taken ka 
ee a ee 
_} This ordinal is often ka moa, the first, before all others, the first in 
Precedence.—Rev. E.T.D. 
