of the Ifthmus^f America. 



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Yphen they had laid upon a Plantain-leaf, 

 feveral of them indeavour'd to tell one af- 

 ter another : But when they could tell no 

 further, , (the number probably exceeding 

 their Arithmetick) and feem'd to grow ve- 

 ry hot, and earned in their Debates about 

 it § one of them ftarted up, and forting out 

 a Lock of his Hair with his Fingers and 

 fhaking it, feem'd to intimate the Number 

 to be great and unknown $ and fo put an 

 end to the Difpute. But one of them came 

 after us, and enquif d our Number in bro- 

 ken Spanijh. 



Their Capital Numbers, One v Two , Three y 

 they name thus : 



1. Conjugti. 



2. Poquah. 



3. Pauquah. 



4. Pakequahi 



5. Eterrah. 



6. Indricah 



7. Coogolah. 



8. Pankopak* 



9. Pakekopahi 



10. Anivego. 



11. Anivego Con jugo. 



1 2. Anivego Poquah. 



13. Anivego Pauquah, &c 

 20. Toola Boguah. 



4c. Toola Guannah. 



Names; 



And fo on to 160, 

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