certain thriftiness or stinginess, perhaps in the supply of fruit; 13, _e-u-nunu_[801]. For the Marquesas Islands (Futuhiwa) I know only a bare enumeration of 13 names of months[802]. For Samoa there is more information. I give von Bülow’s list:--1 (Oct.-Nov.), _palolo_ or _taumafa mua_, ‘there is for the first time abundance for all’: bananas, bread-fruit, and taro are ripe, the month provides much fish; 2, _toe taumafa_, ‘there is once more abundance’, the harvest is still not ended; 3, _utuvamua_, ‘it is uninterrupted’, new crops of other fruit have not yet appeared; 4, _toe utuva_, ‘still uninterrupted’; 5, _faaafu_, ‘the leaves of the yam plant get dry’, i. e. the root is ripe; 6, _lo_, ‘the staff for the harvest of the bread-fruit’, sc. ‘is brought into play’; 7, _aununu_, ‘the making of the arrowroot into starch’, the root is now ripe; 8, _oloumanu_, ‘the cage of the birds’ (is prepared), in which to tame the wild pigeons caught in nets, after some of their wing-feathers have been removed; 9, _palolo-mua_, the first _palolo_ fishing: the appearance of the palolo formerly took place in various months, since there are still islands in which palolo is found in the last quarter of every month; 10, _toe palolo_ or _palolomoli_, ‘repeated last palolo fishing’, from the fishing at the end of the year in October or the end of September, according to the island; 11, _mulifa_, ‘the banana-pole’ (is hewn down), i. e. the bananas are ripe; 12, _lotuaga_, ‘the _lo_ is laid to rest’, i. e. the bread-fruit harvest is over[803]. All the lists agree in giving only twelve months: the seasons are two in number. For the Bowditch Island a list of twelve names is given without explanation; the names are in a great measure the same as the Samoan. The author adds:--It seems as though _vainoa_, month no. 9, is the leapmonth, but there was no name for the eleventh month, corresponding to our March[804].