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APPENDIX VI. 



ilr. Jens informed me that during our stay in Jobi he recognised many 

 words of the Ansus language as closely resembling Nufoor. The numeral 

 systems of the two are, however, very different. Above ten in tlie last-named 

 language the method of formation is quite regular. Thus, forty is samfur di fiak 

 (10 by 4) ; eighty, samfur di ivaar (10 by 8), and so on. The Ansus method of 

 numeration, on the other hand, is very irregular, there being a root word for 

 twenty, while the tens above that number are formed partly by multiplication 

 and partly by addition, as may be seeii from the following table : — 



