NUMERALS. 



Seventy ... Baaleen meea peep baa puuliit maiTang — three twenties 



and two hands. 

 Eighty... ... Puuliit peep baa puuliit peep — two twenties and two 



twenties. 

 Ninety Puuliit peep baa puuliit peep baa puuliit marrang — two 



twenties and two twenties and two hands. 

 Intermediate units between the tens are not named, but are indicated as in 



the Chaap wuurong language. 

 One hundred . . . Barbaanuung. 



Any farther number is wuurt baa dserang wuurt baa dsrang, which means 

 a great many beyond count, and is accompanied by holding out the hands, 

 repeatedly closing and opening the fingers, and saying, ' Ka3, kse, kie.' 



II. — ORDINAL NUMBERS. 



Ordinal numbers are used by the aborigines only in numbering the days of 

 a month in making appointments ; and, as their months are marked by the 

 re-appearance of the moon, their ordinal numbers do not go beyond twenty- 

 eight. They are indicated both by signs and words. The signs are made by 

 touching with the index finger certain parts of the hand, arm, neck, ear, and 

 head ; commencing with the space between the thumb and first finger of the left 

 hand, going up the arm, over the head, down the right arm to the right hand, 

 and then to the thumb and fingers of both hands. ' First,' is represented by 

 touching the space on the back of the left hand between the thumb and fore- 

 finger ; ' second,' the left wrist ; ' third,' between the left wrist and the elbow ; 

 ' fourth,' the elbow ; ' fifth,' space between the left elbow and the shoulder ; 

 'sixth,' the left shoulder; 'seventh,' the left side of the neck; 'eighth,' the left 

 ear ; ' ninth,' the left side of the head above the ear ; ' tenth,' the right side of the 

 head above the ear; ' eleventh,' the right ear; and so on to eighteenth, the .space 

 between the right thumb and forefinger ; then, ' nineteenth,' the little finger of 

 the left hand ; and so on to ' twenty-eight,' the little finger of the right hand. 

 The names of these numbers are the same with those of the different parts which 

 are used as signs. Thus, in the Chaap wuurong language, ' first,' is paapee 

 munnya, ' father of hand ;' ' second,' tartkuurt, ' wrist ;' ' third,' peepuulre 

 gnan-am, ' fat of arm ;' ' fourth,' kukukutt chukk, ' elbow ;' ' fifth,' kallgneeang 



