AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 



Eighty- 



. Puuliit mam, baa puuliit mam — two twenties and two 





twenties. 



Ninety... 



. Puuliit mam, baa puuliit mam, baa puuliit munya — two 





twenties, two twenties, and two hands. 



One hundred*. 



. Larbargirrar, which concludes expressed numbers ; any- 





thing beyond one hundred is larbargirrar larbargirrar, 





signifying a crowd beyond counting, and is always 





accompanied by repeated opening and shutting the 





hands. 



In the Kuurn kopan noot language the cardinal numbers are : — 



One ... 



. Kiiappa. 



Two ... 



. Puuliitcha. 



Three ... 



. Baaleen meea. 



Four ... 



Puuliitcha baa puuliitcha — two and two. 



Five ... 



. Kiiapp marrang — one hand (outspread). 



Six ... 



. Kiiapp marrang baa kiiappa — one hand and one. 



Seven ... 



. Puuliit tulliyerr marrang — two fingers, hand. 



Eight ... 



. Kiiapp marrang baa baalen meea — one hand and three. 



Nine ... 



. Kiiapp marrang puuliitcha baa puuliitcha — one hand, two 





and two. 



Ten ... 



. Puuliit marrang — two hands (outspread). 



Twenty 



. Kiiapp peep. 



Thirty... 



. Kiiapp peep baa puuliit marrang — twenty, and two 





hands. 



Forty 



. Puuliit peep — two twenties. 



Fifty ... 



. Puuliit peep baa puuliit marrang — two twenties and two 





hands. 



Sixty ... 



. Baaleen meea peep — three twenties. 



* I need scarcely point out that this is wholly at variance with the statement made by 



Mr. E. B. Tyler in his 



Primitive Culture,' that 'Among the lowest living men — the savages 



of the South American 



forests and the deserts of Australia — five is actually found to be a 



number which the languages of some tribes do not know by a special word. Not only have 



travellers failed to get from them names for numbers above two, three, or four, but the opinion 



that these are the real 



limits of their numeral series is strengthened by their use of their 



highest known number 



as an indefinite term for a great many.' — Vol. i., p. 220. 



