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| A Thief | Amootoo | Teto |
| To Examine | Mataketake | Mataitai |
| To Sing | Eheiva | Heiva |
| Bad | Keno | Eno |
| Trees | Oratou | Eraou |
| Grand Father | Toubouna | Toubouna |
| No | Kaoura | Oure |
| Number 1 | Tahai | Tahai |
| 2 | Rua | Rua |
| 3 | Torou | Torou |
| 4 | Ha | Heo |
| 5 | Rema | Rema |
| 6 | Ono | Ono |
| 7 | Etu | Hetu |
| 8 | Wharou | Wharou |
| 9 | Toa | Hyva |
| 10 | Angahourou | Ahourou |
| What do you__________ call this or that | Owy Terra | Owy Terra |
There are some small difference in the Language spoke by the Aehei-no mouweans and those of Tovy poe nammu but this difference seem'd to me to be only in the pronunciation and is no more than what we find between one part of England and a nother, what is here inserted as a specemen is that spoke by the People of Ae hei no mouwe. What is meant by the South-Sea Islands are those Islands we our selves touch'd at, but I gave it that title because we have a[l]ways be^en told that
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© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 216, 2004
Published by South Seas
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