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In G glyph numbers are counted from Gb8-30, in A from Ab8-41:
Te Pei

8 * 29.5 = 236
Gb1-6 (236) Gb1-7 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 (472) Aa6-12 Aa6-13
Te Pou

9 * 29.5 = 265.5
Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Aa6-69 Aa6-70 (531) Aa6-71 Aa6-72
Hatinga Te Kohe

12 * 29.5 = 354
Gb4-33 (354) Gb5-1 Aa8-77 Aa8-78 (708) Aa8-79 Aa8-80

In order to accomplish a structure which is parallel with G I have here revised the counting in A to begin neither from pito (Ab8-43) nor from ihe tau (Ab8-44) but from nuku at Ab8-41:

Ab8-39 Ab8-40 Ab8-41 (1) Ab8-42
day zero day 1
Ab8-43 Ab8-44 Ab8-45 Ab8-46
day 2 day 3

Aa8-80 (where 8 * 8 = 64) is not of the standard koti type because, I suggest, Hatinga Te Kohe is a lunar measure.

In G the reversal comes with day 354 + 1, and in Tahua a koti glyph (Aa8-80) marks the 2nd half of day 354 + 1.

Day zero, I guess, is equal to day (1334 + 2) / 2 = 668 = 368 + 300. In G we have to count a day twice and this rule seems to apply also to Tahua. 1336 can be read as 'thirten 36' (which happens to be 468, and then we can count 46 * 8 = 368).

Day 368 can be identified by counting from Ab8-41:

Hanga Te Pau

366
Ab1-10 Ab1-11 Ab1-12 Ab1-13 Ab1-14 Ab1-15
363 364 365
Ab1-16 Ab1-17 (732) Ab1-18 Ab1-19 Ab1-20 Ab1-21 (736)
day 732 / 2 = 366 367 day 736 / 2 = 368

According to Manuscript E the explorers had to go back to Hanga Te Pau in order to fetch fire. The first half of day 366 is a mauga glyph (meaning darkness), but in the 2nd half 2 + 5 'feathers' indicate fire.

 

We should document in a table the grand picture which I here have suggested:

732 596
Ab8-41 (1) Ab8-42 Ab1-20 Ab1-21 (736) Ab1-22 Ab1-23 Ab8-39 Ab8-40
day 1 366 day 736 / 2 = 368 day 1 298 day 300
(1334 + 2) glyphs = 668 days = 368 + 300

Hanga Te Pau here occurs where it should be according to G, viz. as day 366, not as day 368.

36 * 8 = 288, as if to say 28 sunlit moon nights times 8, and the remarkable sequence (1336, 468, 368, 288) will continue with 28 * 8 = 224 which gives as a result 88, then 64, 24, and a final 8. It is easy to 'count down', but how can we count the reverse process, 'count up'?

Both the sequence of 368 and the sequence of 300 days begin on side b, but the sequence with 300 days never visits side a.

368 begins 22½ days from the end of side b and ends 10½ days into the beginning of side b. 22½ + 10½ + 335 = 368.

On side a Te Pei is located so that 472 - 45 = 427:

43 425
Ab8-41 (1) Ab8-42 Aa6-10 Aa6-11 (472)
day 1 235 236

670 - 427 = 243 glyphs remain to the end of side a, but the text continues onto side b:

 

232
Aa6-12 Aa6-13 Aa8-77 Aa8-78 (708)
237 116 354
Aa8-79 Aa8-80 Aa8-81 Aa8-82 Aa8-83 Aa8-84 Aa8-85 (715) Ab1-1
355 356 357 358
Ab1-2 Ab1-3 Ab1-4 Ab1-5 Ab1-6 Ab1-7 Ab1-8 Ab1-9
359 360 361 362
Ab1-10 Ab1-11 Ab1-12 Ab1-13 Ab1-14 Ab1-15 Ab1-16 Ab1-17 (732)
363 364 365 day 732 / 2 = 366
Ab1-18 Ab1-19 Ab1-20 Ab1-21 (736)
367 day 736 / 2 = 368

Metoro began reading with side b. He may have seen koti in day 355.

Ab4-36 is the koti glyph which remains to discuss, and it is located among the 300 days. If the kuhane stations continue also in these 300 days, the location of Ab4-36 must be beyond Hatinga Te Kohe. Yes, even beyond Hanga Takaure:

Roto Iri Are

13 * 29.5 = 383.5
Ab1-52 (767) Ab1-53 Ab1-54 Ab1-55 Ab1-56 (771) Ab1-57
Tama

14 * 29.5 = 413
Ab2-30 (826) Ab2-30 Ab2-31 Ab2-32 Ab2-33 (830) Ab2-34
One Tea

15 * 29.5 = 442.5
Ab3-3 (885) Ab3-4 Ab3-5 Ab3-6 Ab3-7 (889) Ab3-8
Hanga Takaure

16 * 29.5 = 472
Ab3-62 (944) Ab3-63 Ab3-64 Ab3-65 Ab3-66 (948) Ab3-67

Counted from Ab8-41 its number is 45 + 670 + 244 + 36 = 995, which means day 497.5 - not reaching to the 17th station (17 * 29.5 = 501.5). Koti in Ab4-36 is in Hanga Takaure.

Maybe more to the point: Counting glyphs from the beginning of those 300 days: 995 - 736 = 259, or the first half of day 130.