pohi.
In counting fish, and all kinds of fruit, except breadfruit, the scale begins with _tauna_, pair, and then, omitting _onohuu_, they employ the same words again, but in a modified sense.

_Takau_ becomes 10, _au_ 100, etc.; but as the word "pair" is understood in each case, the value is the same as before.

The table formed on this basis would be: 2 (units) = 1 tauna = 2.
10 tauna = 1 takau = 20.
10 takau = 1 au = 200.
10 au = 1 mano = 2000.
10 mano = 1 tini = 20,000.
10 tini = 1 tufa = 200,000.
10 tufa = 1 pohi = 2,000,000.
For counting breadfruit they use _pona_, knot, as their unit, breadfruit usually being tied up in knots of four.

_Takau_ now takes its third signification, 40, and becomes the base of their breadfruit system, so to speak.

For some unknown reason the next unit, 400, is expressed by _tauau_, while _au_, which is the term that would regularly stand for that number, has, by a second duplication, come to signify 800.