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Evidently February 29 is included in the Mamari description of the Gregorian calendar:

Ca12-21 Ca12-22 Ca12-23 (339)
February 21 22 23 (419)
Ca12-24 Ca12-25 Ca12-26 Ca12-27
February 24 (55) 25 26 27
Ca13-1 (344) Ca13-2 Ca13-3
February 28 (59) 29 March 1

March 1 will then be day 61 and the presence of number 61 in H / P / Q becomes more understandable - it suggests a year with 6 * 61 = 366 days, a leap year.

Ca13-4 Ca13-5 Ca13-6
March 2 (62) 3 4
Ca13-7 (350) Ca13-8 Ca13-9 Ca13-10
March 5 6 7 8 (68)
Ca13-11 (354) Ca13-12 Ca13-13 Ca13-14 Ca13-15
March 9 10 11 12 13 (73)

12 * 29½ = 354 and hakaariki are at left in Ca13-11, they have presumably done their work. 4 nights later is a niu, and then a fresh vae which connects to the earlier such glyphs (see the previous page). March 14 can be written 3-14:

Ca13-16 (359) Ca13-17 Ca13-18
March 14 (π) 15 16

If we should add a Mensis Intercalaris to February 23 (54) in an ordinary year we will reach March 17. 54 + 22 = 76 = 59 + 17. But by counting also Ca13-2 (February 29) we will reach March 16 (at Ca13-18). This should be done every 4th year. In ¾ of the years Ca13-2 could theoretically regarde be at March 1 and Ca13-18 would then represent March 17.

Ca13-19 Ca13-20 (363)
March 17 (77) 18 (443)

This is the end of the 13th glyph line. Only half a glyph is drawn beyond the vero (spear) in Ca13-19 and 15 * 29½ = 442½.