Three to each
To-los’ nan i-sa’

Ten to each
Po-os’ nan i-sa’

Eleven to each
Sim po’-o ya i-sas’ nan i-sa’

Twelve to each
Sim po’-o ya chu’-wa is nan i-sa’

Twenty to each
Chu-wan’ po-o’ is nan i-sa’

NOTES

[1] —­ The proof sheets of this paper came to me at the Philippine Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., July, 1904.  At that time Miss Maria del Pilar Zamora, a Filipino teacher in charge of the model school at the Exposition, told me the Igorot children are the brightest and most intelligent of all the Filipino children in the model school.  In that school are children from several tribes or groups, including Christians, Mohammedans, and pagans.

[2] —­ There are many instances on record showing that people have been planted on Pacific shores many hundred miles from their native land.  It seems that the primitive Pacific Islanders have sent people adrift from their shores, thus adding a rational cause to those many fortuitous causes for the interisland migration of small groups of individuals.

“In 1696, two canoes were driven from Ancarso to one of the Philippine Islands, a distance of eight hundred miles.  They had run before the wind for seventy days together, sailing from east to west.  Thirty-five had embarked, but five had died from the effects of privation and fatigue during the voyage, and one shortly after their arrival.  In 1720, two canoes were drifted from a remote distance to one of the Marian Islands.  Captain Cook found, in the island of Wateo Atiu, inhabitants of Tahiti, who had been drifted by contrary wind in a canoe, from some islands to the eastward, unknown to the natives.  Several parties have, within the last few years, (prior to 1834), reached the Tahitian shores from islands to the eastward, of which the Society Islands had never before heard.  In 1820, a canoe arrived at Maurua, about thirty miles west of Borabora, which had come from Rurutu, one of the Austral Islands.  This vessel had been at sea between a fortnight and three weeks; and, considering its route, must have sailed seven or eight hundred miles.  A more recent instance occurred in 1824:  a boat belonging to Mr. Williams of Raiatea left that island with a westerly wind for Tahiti.  The wind changed after the boat was out of sight of land.  They were driven to the island of Atiu, a distance of nearly eight hundred miles in a south-westerly direction, where they were discovered several months afterwards.  Another boat, belonging to Mr. Barff of Huahine, was passing between that island and Tahiti about the same time, and has never since been heard of; and subsequent instances of equally distant and perilous voyages in canoes or open boats might be cited.” —­ (Ellis) Polynesian Researches, vol.  I, p. 125.