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basis to which the name p/¢ or hun-pic, one pic, was applied. Above 
this number the count continued by multiplication, thus: 
ca-pic =2>8,000. 
ox-pie =38,000. 
can-pic=4 < 8,000. 
and so on to bolonlahun-pic, or 19 pie. 
For 20 pic, or 160,000, another simple term—ca/a)—is introduced; 
and for 20 calab, or 3,200,000, another simple term—/7nch7/—is intro- 
duced; and for 20 kinchil, the term a/av. The series of primary or 
basal terms are therefore as follows: 
20 units =1 kal = 20. 
20 kal =1 bak = 400. 
20 bak =! pic = 8,000. 
20 pic =lcalab = _ 160,000. 
20 calab =1 kinehil= 3,200,000. 
20 kinchil=1 alan =64,000,000. 
In reference to the signification of ea/a>, Dr Brinton*' writes as fol- 
lows: ** Ca/ab seems to be an instrumental form from ca/, to stutt, to 
fill full. The word ca/am is used in the sense of excessive, overmuch.” 
His note (1) is as follows: ‘**(Ca/; hartar o emborrachar la fruta.’ 
Diccionario Maya-Espanol del Convento de San Francisco, Merida, MS. 
I have not found this word in other dictionaries in my reach.” As 
Perez, Brasseur, and Henderson give as one meaning of ca/ah, ** inti- 
nitely, many times,” itis probable that this was the sense in which it came 
into use as a numeral adjective, a more definite meaning being after- 
ward applied. Henderson gives as another signification ‘*a buckle,” 
but this may be modern. Zofzceh, which is sometimes used in place of 
hkinchil, signifies ** deer skin,” but the latter term has received no sat- 
isfactory interpretation. As c/7/ is interpreted by the lexicographers 
“knapsack, granary, barn,” it is possibly the clue to the signification. 
The highest term—a/au—remains unexplained. As pic has been used 
in post-Columbian times to denote 1,000, #7nch7/ has been used to sig- 
nifty 1,000,000. 
Before commenting further on this system it will be best to present 
the data at hand relating to the count aboye 10 by other tribes of the 
Mayan group, and by some tribes of surrounding stocks. 
Huasteca® 
10 lahu. 17 lahu-buk=10-+-7. 
11 lahu-hun=10+1. IS lahu-huaxik=10+-8, 
12 lahu-tzab=10+-2. 19 lahu-belleah=10-+ 9. 
13. lahu-ox=10+ 3. 20 hum-inik=1 man. 
14 lahu-tze=10+-4. 80 hum-inik lahu=20 (or 1 
15 lahu-bo=10-+-5. man) +10. 
16 lahu-akak=10-+-6. 40 tzab-inik=2 20. 
1Maya Chronicles, p. 45. 
2Stoll, Zur Ethnog: Guatemala, pp. 68-70,and Marcelo Alejandre, Cartilla Huasteca, p. 158 (fh is sub 
stituted forj, Alejandre uses the terminal c, but to be uniform with Stoll, I have substituted *), 
