it could no longer be seen for the light of the sun, it was called _muku_ (the 30th), ‘cut off’. Thus were accomplished the thirty days and nights of the month. A bare list of the thirty names of the days is given for the Marquesas[690]. Alongside of these a bipartite division of the month is mentioned--the moon arriving, and the moon about to be extinguished[691]. In New Zealand there are various lists of the nights of the moon. The month is also sometimes divided into halves according to the waxing and waning moon[692]. I give the Tahitian names in order to point out that here, as also in Hawaii, some days in the middle of both halves of the month have the same names, which are distinguished from the next following by additions the sense of which is unfortunately not always given. Thus:--1, _tirreo_; 2, _tirrohiddi_; 3, _o-hatta_; 4, _ammi-amma_; 5, _ammi-amma-hoi_; 6, _orre-orre_; 7, _orre-orre-hoi_; 8, _tamatea_; 9, _huna_; 10, _orabu_; 11, _maharru_; 12, _ohua_; 13, _mahiddu_; 14, _ohoddu_; 15, _marai_; 16, _oturu_; 17, _ra-au_; 18, _ra-au-hoi_; 19, _ra-au-haddi_; 20, _ororo-tai_; 21, _ororo-rotto_; 22, _ororo-haddi_; 23, _tarroa-tahai_; 24, _tarroa-rotto_; 25, _tarroa-haddi_; 26, _tane_; 27, _oro-mua_; 28, _oro-muri_; 29, _omuddu_ (28 and 29 together _matte-marama_, on the Society Islands they say during these days that the moon is dead)[693]. In the islands just mentioned the names of three successive days are often formed from _mua_, ‘fore’, _roto_, ‘in the middle’, and _muri_, ‘hinder’[694], and in the Carolines names of the days are similarly combined in groups. From these lists it becomes plain how the names of the separate days have been first worked out from the phases of the moon. When only 29 names are given, the thirtieth day occurring only in every other month has evidently been left out. This must be the case, because the month always begins with the new moon. We further possess lists of the days of the month for the Mortlock Islands, and some for the Carolines, Ponape, Yap, Uleai, Lamotrek[695]; the lists for Lamotrek, Uleai, and the Mortlock Islands differ only in the dialect. It is to be noted that in some cases the month falls into smaller subdivisions, as in Ponape, where it begins after the full moon and consists of three periods:--1, _rot_, ‘darkness’, i. e. nights when there is no moon, 13 days; 2, _mach_, new moon, 9 days, which are numbered consecutively; 3, _pul_, the time of full moon, 5 days. Three days are therefore lacking (the time of invisibility?). In Yap 1, _pul_, new moon, 13 days; 2, _botrau_, full moon, 9 days; 3, _lumor_, ‘darkness’, 8 days.