(Footnote.  Example:  aba nudu gasumeipa = let us two seize him.)

557 :  Let us, shall we? :  alpa* :  -.

(Footnote.  Example:  alpa pongeipa? = shall we sail?)

558 :  Mine :  ngow (if a male) udzu (if a female) :  -. 559 :  Thine :  yinu :  -. 560 :  His :  nunue :  -. 561 :  Her :  nanue :  -. 562 :  Our (dual) :  abane (566)* :  -.

(Footnote.  Includes the person addressed:  the mother speaking to the father of their child would say abane kaje = our child.)

563 :  Our (dual) :  albeine (538)* :  -.

(Footnote.  Excludes the person addressed:  in answer to kaje chena ngipeine? = is that your child? the father or mother, BOTH BEING PRESENT, and one pointing to the other, would say to a third person, albeine kaje = the child is ours.  These forms are Polynesian also as I have since found recorded.)

564 :  Our (plural) :  arrien :  -. 565 :  Your (dual) :  ngipeine (540) :  -. 566 :  Your (plural) :  ngitanaman (541) (568) :  -. 567 :  Their (dual) :  palaman (542) :  -. 568 :  Their (plural) :  tanaman (543) :  -.

7.  NUMERALS.

569 :  One :  warapune (580) :  epiamana. 570 :  Two :  quassur :  elabaiu. 571 :  Three :  uquassur-warapune :  dama*.

(Footnote.  After careful investigation I am inclined to think that the Gudang blacks have no words to express definite numbers beyond three.  Dama is generally used for higher numbers, and occasionally unora.)

572 :  Four :  uquassur-uquassur :  -. 573 :  Five :  uquassur-uquassur-warapune :  -. 574 :  Six :  uquassur-warapune-uquassur-warapune :  -. 575 :  Seven :  uquassur-warapune-uquassur-warapune-warapune :  -. 576 :  Eight :  uquassur or ipel uquassur repeated 4 times :  -.

8.  ADJECTIVES.*

(Footnote.  The formation of many adjectives can be clearly traced:  in fact, one of the most obvious features of the language—­imperfectly as it is understood—­is the facility with which many nouns may be converted into either adjectives or verbs.  Thus, mapei = a bite, becomes mapeile = capable of biting, and is the root of the verb mapeipa = to bite.  The positive adjunct leg, and its negative aige (802, 803), are also used to convert nouns into adjectives:  the former follows the same rules as those before given for forming the plural:  gizu = sharpness, becomes either gizule = sharp, or gizuge = blunt, literally:  sharpness-possessing, or, possessing not :  from nuki = water, we get the form nukile maram = the well contains water, or, nukegi maram = the well is dry:  danagi = blind, literally means, eye-possessing not :  as a further example, I may give, ipikai ajirge wap’ ina badale mapeip = the shameless woman eats this sore-producing fish.)