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The Madegasses are not ignorant of numbers; 
they reckon from one to ten, then begin again, and 
when they get to ten, add it to the first, and so on : 
in this manner they will readily cast up a great num¬ 
ber. The negroes of Machicore, and the inhabitants 
of the mountains, having very little to do with com¬ 
merce, know nothing of numbers. 
