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four hundred. It is a modern improvement that the word kana 
has been prefixed to lima, ono, hikw ete. to express fifty, sixty, 
seventy, etc. “At the present time the Hawaiian enumerate by 
units, tens, hundreds, thousands. The words haneri, hundred, 
tausani, thousand, miliona, million, have been introduced from 
the English. 
The order of counting by fours was as follows: 
aha kahi = four units = 1 kauwna = 
umi kauna = ten fours = 1 kanaha = 40 
umt kanaha = ten forties = 1 law = 400 
umi lau = ten 400s = 1 mano = 4000 
umi mano = ten 4000s = 1 hint = 40000 
umikini = ten 40000s = 1 lehu = 400000! 
Turning now to the Ponape we find the same method of fours 
in use. It is less perfect than the Hawaiian, but though simpler 
was probably derived from a common system. The terms are as 
follows : 
Four units are termed at 
Another art = 
ejil = 
mm © bo 
apong = 
alim = 5 
This order is followed till the tenth number is reached which is 
called forty. This order repeated gives 40 + 40 = 80, this repeated 
_ again =80+ 40, ie., 120 and so on ad infinitum. 
~ The Ponape system is the simpler of the two, but it seems quite 
impossible that two peoples should have such a system unless they 
held much in common to both. 
au, Rarotong , also meaning 100. Mano is 1090 in Maor!, 2000 
tongan and Tahitian, 10000 in Samoan, Tongan, and 4000 in Hawanan 
and Marquesan. The Hawaiian kini, Marquesan tiui is 40000, but Maort 
