For the Melanesians well developed series of months are given: the very instructive statement of Codrington will be found in the next chapter.[790] For the Carolines two lists of names are given, from Lamotrek and from Yap[791]; but they are of no use to us, since they only give twelve names without any explanation. But the list for the Mortlock Islands, a group included in the Carolines, is of great interest, since every month is named after a constellation and therefore is also regulated by it. The names are:--1, _yis_, Leo; 2, _soropuel_, Corvus; 3, _aramoi_, Arcturus; 4, _tumur_, Scorpio; 5, _mei-sik_, ν, ξ, ο Herculis; 6, _meilap_, Aquila; 7, _sota_, Equuleus; 8, _la_, Pegasus; 9, _ku_, Aries; 10, _mariher_, the Pleiades; 11, _un-allual_, _elluel_, Aldebaran and Orion; 12, _mau_, Sirius[792]. The same system, with names in some cases the same, is given for the southernmost group of the Carolines, the St. David’s Islands[793]. The months of the Fijians, beginning at February, are:--1, _sese-ni-ngasau lailai_; 2, _s.-n.-n.-levu_; 3, _vulai-mbotambota_; 4, _v.-kelikeli_; 5, _v.-were-were_; 6, _kawakatangare_; 7, _kawawaka-lailai_; 8, _k.-levu_; 9, _mbalolo-lailai_; 10, _m.-levu_; 11, _nunga-lailai_; 12, _n.-levu_[794]. The names are not explained, but from the glossary[795] we learn that _vula_ means ‘moon’ and ‘month’, _se-ni-ngasau_ ‘flower of the reed’, _mbota_ ‘to share out, distribute’, _keli_ ‘to dig’, _were_ ‘to till the ground’, _kawa_ ‘offspring, posterity’, _waka_ ‘root’, _nunga_ is the name of a fish, _mbalolo_ is the familiar palolo, which is a favourite delicacy all over Polynesia, _levu_ = ‘big’, _lailai_ = ‘little’. In so far as the meaning of the names is to be perceived, therefore, they relate to the business of agriculture and fishing. Here also we meet the already familiar phenomenon in which several months have the same name, and are distinguished by the addition of ‘big’ and ‘little’.