In the immortal words of Socrates, "...I drank what?"

Um. So I'm reading this 1935 paper to find more data for my thesis? And I never realized how handy conventional descriptive notation was. I mean, I understood that it was important, because, hey, otherwise maybe your 'b' would sound like my 'i'. And that would be no good. But really. The author is using numbers to describe tone in this language, which I have seen before, but not in a context used functionally by linguists. And I think that people gave different numbers to the same tones in different languages. Anyway, so I was sifting through this big word list looking at the author's notation and trying to find words that I have in a list of words with modern transcriptions, and I thought I had decoded it, but something is screwy cause she's ending up with the wrong tone patterns on certain words. So either she's wrong, or my other source (whom EVERYBODY and their mother has since used) is wrong. Fuck.