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The H text goes on alone and we can try to extrapolate the dates in the same manner as we just have done for the end of the P text:

1149 / 3 = 383
Hb10-23 Gb6-1 (384) Gb6-2
February 23 (419) February 24 (420) 25 (421)
Hb10-24 Hb10-25 Hb10-26 Hb10-27 Hb10-28 (1154) Hb10-29
February 24 (420) February 25 (56)
Hb10-30 Hb10-31 Hb10-32 (1158) Hb10-33 Hb10-34 Hb10-35
February 26 (57) February 27 (58)
Hb10-36 Hb10-37 Hb10-38 (1164)
February 28 (59)

February 25 is a tagata day according to G, and - we have just concluded in connection with looking at the P text  - February 26 could be a leap day (with glyph number 386 = 2 * 193):

Gb5-28 Gb5-29 Gb6-1 (384) Gb6-2 Gb6-3 Gb6-4
22 23 24 (420) February 25 26 27 (58)
Gb6-5 Gb6-6 Gb6-7 Gb6-8 (391) Gb6-9 Gb6-10
February 28 March 1 2 (61) 3 4 5 (429)
Gb6-11 Gb6-12 Gb6-13 Gb6-14 Gb6-15 Gb6-16 (399)
March 6 7 8 9 (68) 10 11 (435)

In the Gregorian calendar March 1 is day 60 and in H there seems to be (dates are uncertain) a Rei glyph:

Hb10-39 Hb10-40 Hb10-41 (1167) Hb10-42 Hb10-43 Hb10-44 (1170)
March 1 (60) March 2 (61)
Hb10-45 Hb10-46 Hb10-47 (1173)
March 3 (62)
Hb10-48 Hb10-49 Hb10-50 (1176)
March 4 (428)

Another Rei follows 10 glyphs later. 1176 / 3 = 392 (= 386 + 6). What could be its purpose?

Hb10-51 Hb10-52 Hb10-53 Hb10-54 Hb10-55 Hb10-56
March 5 (64) March 6 (65)
Hb10-57 Hb10-58 Hb10-59 Hb10-60 Hb10-61 Hb10-62
March 7 (66) March 8 (67)
Hb10-63 Hb10-64 Hb10-65 (1191)
March 9 (68)

Ominous glyphs (rau hei and vaha kai) arrive in the week before the end of the cycle of Jupiter:

 
Hb10-66 Hb10-67 (1193) Hb11-1 Hb11-2 Hb11-3 Hb11-4 (1197)
March 10 (69) March 11 (435)

1197 / 3 = 399 and the synodic cycle of Jupiter apparently ends 10 weeks after the end of the Gregorian year, 435 - 365 = 70 and 435 - 36 = 399.

The dates I have tried to assign for the glyphs in G are ambivalent. On one hand I have extrapolated backwards from the beginning of side a and on the other I have counted forward from side a. If the heliacal rising of Sirius is at Gb6-20 (which judging from the design of the glyphs is a more reasonable assumption than its position at Ga2-7) then the date at Gb6-20 ought to be June 30. On the other hand is it hard to avoid assigning the date February 23 to Gb5-29. 181 (Gb6-20) - 54 (February 23) = 127, but the distance from Gb5-29 (383) to Gb6-20 (403) is 20 (= 127 - 107).

I assume the date for glyph 399 is to be counted forward. Therefore there ought to be 399 - 366 = 33 days from the end of the Gregorian year to the end of Jupiter's cycle. Yet, hakaariki in Gb5-24 can either be read as February 18 (49) or - from the position of Easter Island - as June 5 (156). 156 - 107 = 49.