A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute / Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island

by Horace Holden

NUMERALS

One,	yaht	Eleven,	sa-kum ah soo´
Two,	guhloo´	Twelve,	sa-kum ah goo-o´
Three,	yah	Thirteen,	sa-kum ah sa-roo´
Four,	vahn	Fourteen,	sa-kum ah vah´oo
Five,	neem	Fifteen,	sa-kum ah leemo´
Six,	yah-woar´	Sixteen,	sa-kum ah wahroo´
Seven,	yah-veesh´	Seventeen,	sa-kum ah weeshoo´
Eight,	yah-wah´	Eighteen,	sa-kum ah wahrew´
Nine,	yah-too´	Nineteen,	sa-kum ah tee-o´
Ten,	yah-saik´ (sake)	Twenty,	sa-kum ah gloo-o´
Ten,	saik	Sixty,	woar-eek´
Twenty,	goowaik´	Seventy,	vesheek´
Thirty,	sa-reek´	Eighty,	wahreck´
Forty,	vah-eek´	Ninety,	tew-week´
Fifty,	leemaik (leemake)	Hundred,	surbung; &c.[8]

The inhabitants of Lord North's island seldom count above a hundred; but when they wish to express a larger number they do it by a repetition of the syllable saik, (ten,) in this manner:—sakum ah saik, ah saik, ah saik, &c.

In counting cocoa-nuts, they use the following numerals:—

One,	soo	Six,	woarroo
Two,	goo-o´	Seven,	veeshoo´
Three,	sa-roo´	Eight,	tee-oo
Four,	vah´o	Nine,	wahrew´
Five,	leemo´	Ten,	saik

In counting fish they have still a different set of numbers:—

Seemul eekah, one fish	Vahmul eekah, four fishes
Gwimmul eekah, two fishes	Neemul eekah, five fishes
Sreemul eekah, three fishes	Waw´remul eekah, six fishes
Vish-ee ahmul eekah, seven fishes	Too-ee´mul eekah, nine fishes
War´remul eekah, eight fishes	Saik eekah, ten fishes

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