THOMAS] NUMERALS OF VARIOUS TRIBES 8$1 
Before passing to the numbers aboye 10, some few examples of 
methods of counting by peoples bordering on or within the geo- 
graphic limits embraced in this paper, and with whom some of the 
tribes we have mentioned must have come into contact, will be pre- 
sented, as some of them are exceptional. 
The first of these is a list of numerals given by Gallatin;' the par- 
ticular tribe referred to is unkn 
own. 
San Antonio, of Texas 
1 pil. 7 puguantzan co ajti ¢ pil=4+2--1. 
2 ajté. 8 puguantzan ajte=4%2. 
3 ajti c pil=2+1. 9 puguantzan co juyopamauj=4-+5. 
4 puguantzan. 10 juyopamauj ajte=5 <2. 
5 juyopamiuj. 20 taiguaco. 
6 ajti ¢ pil ajte=(2+1) 2, or chicuas. 
The numbers to 10 in use among the Mosquito tribe of Honduras 
are as follows: 
Mosquito” 
kumi. 8 matlalkabe pura wal=6+2. 
2 wal. 9 matlalkabe pura niupa=6—-3 
3 niupa. 10 mata-wal-sip=fingers of the second 
4 wal-wal=2+-2 or 2X2. hand. 
5 mata-sip=the fingers on one hand. 20 twanaiska-kumi=20> 1. 
6 matlalkabe. 40 twanaiska-wal=20 2. 
7 matlalkabe pura kumi=6-+1. 
Dr Brinton® gives lists of numerals in three of the dialects of the 
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Xinea stock as follows: 


3 uala 
+ jiria 
5 puj 
5 tacal 
7 pujud 

5 tepuc 
9 uxtu 
10 pakil 

3 ualar 
4 iriar 
5 pijar 

7 puljar 
8 apuj 


Sinacantan | Jupiltepeque | Jutiapa 
1 ica 1 ical LW eical 
2) th 2 piar 2 _piar* 
3 guarar 
+ iriar 
5 . pujar 
6 tacalar 
7 pulluar 
S  apocar 
9 gerjsar 
10 paquilar 

1Trans. Am. Ethn. Soc., vol. 1, table a, p.114. 
“Conant, Number Concept, p. 121. Membreno, Hondurefiismos, p. 210, under the name ‘* Zambo 
del Cabo.” 
3 Xinea Indians of Guatemala, Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., 1885. 
4 Dr Brinton remarks that the termination arin this dialect reminds one of the Ixil termination 
vual, indicating turn or repetition, as ungvual, one time, cavual, two times, etc. 
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