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   II.
=01= Mai tae tu ki te hakahiria ^__ o tona haú ^__ koia kua iri ^__ ki to [p.97] ona o te haú ^__
=05= ka rere te manu kura ^__ ka rere ki to manu kahua auroaroa ^__ kua hakairi ^__ ki toona o te haú ^__ kua rere koe, e te manu e ki te tagata hakanaganagana ^__
=10= koia kua mau i to tapa mea ^__ inai tae tuki te moa ^__ hau ia ^__ ko te manu hakaumi ^__ hakahoki ^__
=15= ko te rima kua oho ^__ ki te moa ^__ e kua haú ia ^__ i to manu rere ^__ ko te tagata kua mau ^__
=20= i te tao hia ^__ ko te moa ^__ kua hau i tona hau ^__ E te manu e ^__ ka kokoti koe ^__
=25= mai tae vero hia ^__ ki to moa ^__ [p.98] ku hukahuka hia ia ^__ ki to maro ^__ ko te marama o te nuku ^__
=30= kua haú i te haú o te nuku ^__ kua tuu i te hau o te heu ^__ E tagata era e, ka uga koe ^__ ki to maitaki ^__ mai tae hahaú ia ^__
=35= i te nuku roa ^__ ma to humu ^__ kua oho te rima ^__ ki te ariki ^__ kua tere ko te heu ia ^__
=40= kua hanau ^__ ki te kotia ia ^__ kua vero ^__ koia ki te moa ^__ e kua rere ^__
=45= ki te toki.

   Désormais, le genre boustrophédon des tablettes ayant été indiqué, nous le mettons de côté, comme inutile, et ennuyeux en un cahier. Nous mettons les signes à la suite les uns des autres, dans 1'ordre des tablettes, et indiquant les lignes par n^os. [From now on, since the boustrophedon character of the tablets has been established, we set it aside, as useless and aggravating in a notebook. The signs are now written one after the other, in their order on the tablets, and lines are indicated by numbers⁽¹⁾]

Note 1. Only the text of Metoro's reading appears in Barthel 1958, with Jaussen's comments. From these comments, one deduces that the hieroglyphs were reproduced on every right-hand page, and faced Metoro's text on the left-hand page. So far, Jaussen had reproduced those signs as they appeared on the tablet, in reverse boustrophedon, a tedious and confusing layout, which he now sets aside.