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units are extended to five^ which has a peculiar 
sign^ as well as fifty;, and five hundred^. Among 
the Zamucas^ as well as among the Muyscas, 
eleven are cd^eAfoot-one ; twelve^ Joot-two ; but 
the remainder of the numeration of these nations 
is of a fatiguing length, because, instead of sim- 
ple words they make use of puerile circumlocu- 
tions. They say, for instance, the hand Jinished, 
for five ; one of the other (hand), for six ; the two 
hands finished, for ten ; and the feet finished, for 
twenty. This last number is sometimes identical 
with the word man, or person, to indicate, that 
the two hands and feet constitute the whole indi- 
vidual. Thus, among the Jariiroes, noenipume, 
derived from noeni, two, and canipum^e, man, sig- 
nifies two men, and also the number forty. The 
Sapiboconoes have no simple expression for a 
hundred, or a thousand : they say for ten, tunca; 
for a hundred, tunca-tunca ; and for a thousand, 
tunca-tunca-tmica. They form squares and cubes 
by reduplication, as the Chinese form their plural, 
and the Biscayans their superlative. Finally, the 
groups of twenty units, or the twenties of the 
Muyscas, of the Mexicans, and so many other 
nations of America, are found in the old world 
among the Biscayans, and the inhabitants of 
Armorica. The first reckon : one, hat, or unan ; 
two, hi, or daou ; three, iru, or tri ; twenty, 
^ Hervas, p. 28, 96,102, 105, 112, 116, aiidl27 . Mungo, 
Park’s Travels, French translation, tom. i, p. 25 and 95. 
