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APPENDIX. 



[sect. 



over. We given a specimen of the fingers counted but not 

 expressed. 



?/ioiiue hela. 

 meberi. 



meraru. 



raenne. 



metlanu. 



merataru. 



meshupa. 



Oxen khoniu. 

 i . eiiue hela. 



2. foperi. 



3. Zitaru. 



4. forme. 



5. Titian u. 



6. fotataru. 



7. foshupa. 



8. fohera meberi. 

 o. fo'hera ?>ionue hela. 



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10. fo'shume. 



1 1. shume le a coa ka fiiue hela. 

 shume le a coa ka Ztperi. 

 goiiue hela, once, 

 gaberi, twice, 

 gararu, thrice, &c. 

 loa bonne, fourth time, 

 loa botlanu, fifth time. 



loa borataru, sixth time. 



8. herameberi. 



9. hera monue hela. 



10. me shume. 



11. shume le a coa ka eiiue hela. 



hela. 



11. shume le a coa ka meberi. 



12. shume le a coa ka meraru, &c. 

 10. leshume lenue hela, one ten. 

 20. mashume maberi, two tens. 

 30. mashume mararu, &c. 



100. shume ye le golu, the great 



ten, viz. 100. 

 200. mashumemagolu maberi, two 



great tens, 200. I 



" Large numbers are indicated by the repetition of intsi, 

 bontsi, many; bontsintsi, crowds, swarms. Lintsi means 

 fiies; the idea may have arisen from swarms of these. 

 They have no very definite idea of thousands, but one 

 thousand is easily counted as ten great tens: many figures 

 are used to denote multitudes, Kana ka boyan, like the 

 grass ; kana ka linaleri, like the stars ; kana ka tsie, like to 

 the locusts. They have also a plural in ma, which denotes 

 many ; thus : nari, a buffalo ; linari, buffaloes ; manari, 

 many buffaloes. The native way of counting is so prolix 

 that missionaries have resolved to introduce the English 

 numerals, and they are readily adopted. The prolixity of 

 Sech uana may be understood when it is known that the 

 number 88 requires the whole of the following words : 



