Mr. W A FE RV Defcriptiott 



mate) and iiold it up, in their Hands, /ort* 

 ing it gradually with their Fingers, and 

 (halting it. To exprefs a thing innumer- 

 able, they take up all the Hair on one fide 



of the Head, and fhake it. 



When we went into, the South Seas un- 

 der Captain Sharp, we were in Number a- 

 bout 336, as I remember ^ and a pretty 

 many of the - Indians of the Iflbmus bore 

 us Company in our March. They were 

 willing to take account of our Number as 

 we march 9 d 5 fo one of the Indians fat in 

 the Path, and having a little heap of Maiz- 

 grains by him, for every Man of ours that 

 pafs'd by him he put one Grain into his 

 Basket. When he had thus taken a great part 

 t>f our Number, one of our Men in paffing 

 by, gave his Basket purpofely a Tofs, and 

 threw out his Corn, and fo fpoifd his Ac- 

 count. This feem'd to difpleafe them 

 Yet one of them got a little before, and 

 fitting clofe iii the Wood, <at a fmall de- 

 fiance from the narrow Path, which we 

 were to p>ifs one by one, he there took our 

 number in Grains of Maiz. But when he 

 had taken his Account, they were put to 

 it to call it up : For two or three Days af- 

 ter, in the progrefs of our March, coming 

 among fome of the Southern Indians, we 

 faw fome twenty or thirty of the graver 

 Men got together, and trying their Skill to 

 compute the Grains in the Basket 3 which 



when 



