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Sixty-first Mang-a-nim ay po'-o ya i-sa' Seventieth Mang-a-pi-to' ay po'-o Seventy-first Mang-a-pi-to' ay po'-o ya i-sa' Eightieth Mang-a-wa-lo' ay po'-o Eighty-first Mang-a-wa-lo' ay po'-o ya i-sa' Ninetieth Mang-a-si-am ay po'-o Ninety-first Mang-a-si-am ay po'-o ya i-sa' One hundredth Mang-a-po'-o ya po'-o One hundred and first Mang-a-po'-o ya po'-o ya i-sa' Two hundredth Ma-mid-dua' la-sot' Two hundred and first Ma-mid-dua' la-sot' ya i-sa' Three hundredth Ma-mit-lo'-i la-sot' Three hundred and first Ma-mit-lo'-i la-sot' ya i-sa' Four hundredth Mang-i-pat' ay la-sot' Four hundred and first Mang-a-pat' ay la-sot' ya i-sa' Thousandth Ka-la-so la-sot' or ka-li-fo-li'-fo Last A-nong-os'-na Distributive Numerals One to each I-sas' nan i-sa' Two to each Chu-was' nan i-sa' 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 e
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