But where in the text could these 3 (= 29 - 26) glyphs (days) be, those which in some way had to be leaped over? First we should remember the distribution of the rakau glyphs. All 6 of them are probably belonging on the front side of the text, which might mean we should not end counting heliacally until we at least have reached Cb1-6 - as if alluding to 16 and the minimum number of nights before a star reappeared again after having risen together with the blinding Sun.

rakau


Ca4-13 (89)	Ca4-20	Ca4-25	Ca5-5	Ca10-6	Cb1-6 (398)
310

If we should count also the empty glyph space at the beginning of side a, then Cb1-6 will be at day 399 = the synodic cycle of Jupiter (Father Light).

Rakau

Raau, medicine, remedy, drug. Ra'a'u, scratch on the skin. Rakau, a plant. Râkau, goods, property. Vanaga.

1. Wood; rakau ta, cudgel, stick. P Pau.: rakau, tree, to dress a wound. Mgv.: rakau, wood, timber, a tree; medicine, a remedy; an object. Mq.: ákau, wood, tree. Ta.: raáu, id. 2. Medicine, remedy, potion, ointment, furniture, any precious object, resources, baggage, riches, heritage, dowry, merchandise, treasure, wealth; rakau hakaneinei, purgative; rakau nui, rich, opulent; rakau kore, poor, beggar, indigent, miserable, an inferior; hakakamikami ki te rakau, to impoverish; rakau o te miro, ballast. Mq.: akau, anything in general. The medicine sense is particularized in Tonga, Nukuoro, Hawaii, Tahiti, Mangareva, Paumotu. In no other speech does wood stand so fully for wealth of possessions, but it will be recalled that Rapanui is destitute of timber and depends wholly upon driftwood. Churchill.

The rakau type of glyph represented a kind of tree, and Metoro seems to have told Bishop Jaussen how the rather poor variant in Ca10-6 was a toromiro - a tree growing in sweet water (kua noho i te vai):

However, the lake in the picture above is Rano Raraku, whereas the place for toro-miro - possibly meaning the Tree of the Bull (cfr Spanish toro) - was the crater lake at the opposite side, viz. Rano Kau. This was where the last of its kind was growing before toromiro went extinct on the island:

19 (384)	JANUARY 20	21	10	FEBRUARY 1	2 (33)	240
no glyph
	Ca1-1	Ca1-2		Ca1-13	Ca1-14
	koia	ki te hoea		te henua	honu
0h (19 + 61)	March 22 (81)	23		April 3 (93)	4 (80 + 14)
3 186	4 ACRUX (187)**	*ANKAA (5) ALGORAB (188)*		*ANUNITUM ~~REGULUS~~ (16)** *199	17 200
20 (263)	September 21	*EQUINOX*		October 3	4 (277)

OCTOBER 1 (*194 = *255 - 61)

NOVEMBER 11 (314 + 1 = 80 + *235)

Ca9-27 (255)

etoru gagata hakaariki kia raua

December 1 (335 = 80 + 255)

*258 (= 255 + 3)

CURSA (*76 = *258 - 182)

June 2 (153 = 335 - 182 = *73 + 80)

*NOVEMBER 12 (236)**	13	14

Ca10-1 (256)	Ca10-2	Ca10-3
Erua inoino		kua hua te vai
*December 2 (336)*	3	4
SABIK (The Preceding One, η Ophiuchi) *77	*RAS ALGETHI (260) RIGEL (78)*	*~~ALRISHA~~ (261) ~~ARCTURUS~~ (79)*

NOVEMBER 15	16 (320)	17	*18 (242)**

Ca10-4	Ca10-5 (260)	Ca10-6	Ca10-7
te kiore - te inoino	kua oho te rima kua kai - ihe nuku hoi	Tupu te toromiro	kua noho te vai
*December 5*	*6 (340 = 260 + 80)*	**7 (241 + 100)***	8
262 ELNATH (80)**	263 (= 80 + 183) 81 (= 264 - 183)	*LESATH (264) MINTAKA (KHUFU)**	SHAULA ~~HAMAL~~ *ALNILAM (KHAFRE)*

... Toromiro was the sacred Tree on Easter Island, comparable to the northern Oak ...

... The toromiro wood was formerly the principal and indispensable material for Easter Island wood carving. Due to the general barrenness of the land at the time of the European arrival, every scrap of drift wood was collected too, but whenever toromiro was available it was preferred for all wooden artifacts, from personal ornaments and images to house frames, canoes and paddles. The demand for this wood among the natives was so great that the forests in more recent generations have been rapidly vanishing, and partly substituted by the imported miro tahiti... Some of the keenest local wood carvers had old chunks of toromiro wood hoarded in their personal hiding-places, and a fair size root was brought from a cave and presented to the writer as a treasure ...