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Let us begin from the beginning, from the 3 moko glyphs in line Ca4:

Ca4-5 Ca4-11 Ca4-23
Ca10-8 Ca10-16 Ca10-23 Ca11-5
Ca11-15 Ca11-22 Ca11-26 Ca11-30

The rest of them (8 after having pushed moko in Ca12-1 on to side b) seem to form another group.

We can imagine a pattern:

5 11
Ca4-5 (81) Ca4-11 Ca4-23 (99)
6 + 12 = 18

Not only is there one 6 followed by two (giving 3 * 6 = 18), but the first moko - obviously of a different kind because of ihe tau and by cause of the strongly drawn outline - has ordinal number (counted from Ca1-1) equal to 9 * 9 = 81 (the reverse of 18).

Furthermore, the last moko (Ca4-23) has ordinal number 99. If we count with moko as a creature at the end (in contrast to the young ferocious shark) then 9 is an appropriate number.

Glyph line Ca4 is interesting and we need a few extra pages.