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lands, and this of the hrown-eomplexioned race, which have preserved 
their own native numerals entire. This is the case with the langu¬ 
age of Tambora in Sumbawa, with the Ternati, and the Tidori, two 
of the languages of the Moluccas, as well as with the language of 
the Pelew Islands. 
In some languages, again, the native numerals have been preserv¬ 
ed as far as “ three” or “ four,” and the series completed with the 
Malayan, as in the Gorongtalu of Celebes, and the Mangarai of 
Floris. 
The same is the case in the languages of the Negroes as in those 
of the brown-complexioned men. Some have adopted, and some re¬ 
jected the Malayan system. The Negroes of Wageou, and of the 
coast of New Guinea, with the natives of New Ireland within the 
Pacific, have, to a greater or less extent, adopted the Malayan nu¬ 
merals, while the Samang of the Malay Peninsula, the Alfours of the 
interior of New Guinea, the people of Malicolo, of Tanna, and of 
New Caledonia, have each their own native system, unaffected by 
the Malayan. 
Some languages have numerals as far as “ five,” and clumsily con¬ 
tinue the series of digits from their native resources, by adding “one,” 
“ two,” Sec., to the last named number, so that six is expressed by 
“ five” and “ one,” and “ seven” by “ five” and “ two.” This is 
the case with the New Caledonia. 
Others seem to have relics of a binal scale, and combine it with 
the Malayan decimal one, as in the Ende of Fiores. In this, for 
/ one,” “ two,” three,” and “ five,” the Malayan terms have been 
adopted, but instead of being continued beyond this, “ six” and 
“ seven” are expressed by the Malayan words “ five and one” and 
“ five and two.” Four is expressed by a native word, and the Ma¬ 
lay numeral “ two” prefixed to it expresses “ eight,” that is, “ two 
fours.” 
The native Malayan system extends only to 1000, and even to 
this extent, it is not carried by all the tribes that have adopted it. 
It is doubtful whether the terms for ten and for hundred, in the 
different dialects of the Polynesian, and which differ among them- 
