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Jields or cultivated lands) were unacquainted both 
with the I and d. Their language is character- 
ized by the frequent repetition of the syllables 
cha^ che, chu ; as for instance, chu chi^ we ; hy- 
cha charnique^ myself ; cMgua chiguitynynga^ we 
ought to fight ; may sea cha chro guy ^ a worthy 
man, the particle cha added muysca^ denoting 
the male sex. 
The numbers, of which the first ten were cho- 
sen as terms of periodical series fitted to denote 
the great and the small divisions of time, are, in 
the Chiheha language, one, ata ; two, hozha^ or 
hosa ; three, mica ; four, mhuyea^ or muyhica ; 
five, hicsca, or kisca ; six, ta ; seven, qhupqa, or 
cuhupqua ; eight, shuzha, or suhuza ; nine, aca ; 
ten, huhchibica^ or uhchihica. Above ten, the 
Muysca Indians add the word quihicha or qhichay 
which signifies foot. To express eleven, twelve, 
and thirteen, they say, foot 07ie, foot two, foot 
three, quihicha ata, quihicha hosa, quihicha 
mica. These simple ^ expressions intimate, that, 
after having reckoned by the fingers of both 
hands, they continue to count by the toes of the 
feet. We have already observed, in speaking of 
the calendar of the nations of the Mexican race, 
that the number twenty, , which corresponds to 
that of the fingers and toes of the hands and 
feet, acts a great part in American enumeration. 
In the Chibcha language, twenty is denoted by 
foot ten, quihicha uhchihica ; or by the word 
