1, curiri, 2, prica, many; and the Botocudos[23] mokenam, 1, uruhu, many.  The Fuegans,[24] supposed to have been able at one time to count to 10, have but three numerals,—­kaoueli, 1, compaipi, 2, maten, 3.  The Campas of Peru[25] possess only three separate words for the expression of number,—­patrio, 1, pitteni, 2, mahuani, 3.  Above 3 they proceed by combinations, as 1 and 3 for 4, 1 and 1 and 3 for 5.  Counting above 10 is, however, entirely inconceivable to them, and any number beyond that limit they indicate by tohaine, many.  The Conibos,[26] of the same region, had, before their contact with the Spanish, only atchoupre, 1, and rrabui, 2; though they made some slight progress above 2 by means of reduplication.  The Orejones, one of the low, degraded tribes of the Upper Amazon,[27] have no names for number except nayhay, 1, nenacome, 2, feninichacome, 3, ononoeomere, 4.  In the extensive vocabularies given by Von Martins,[28] many similar examples are found.  For the Bororos he gives only couai, 1, maeouai, 2, ouai, 3.  The last word, with the proper finger pantomime, serves also for any higher number which falls within the grasp of their comprehension.  The Guachi manage to reach 5, but their numeration is of the rudest kind, as the following scale shows:  tamak, 1, eu-echo, 2, eu-echo-kailau, 3, eu-echo-way, 4, localau, 5.  The Carajas counted by a scale equally rude, and their conception of number seemed equally vague, until contact with the neighbouring tribes furnished them with the means of going beyond their original limit.  Their scale shows clearly the uncertain, feeble number sense which is so marked in the interior of South America.  It contains wadewo, 1, wadebothoa, 2, wadeboaheodo, 3, wadebojeodo, 4, wadewajouclay, 5, wadewasori, 6, or many.

Turning to the languages of the extinct, or fast vanishing, tribes of Australia, we find a still more noteworthy absence of numeral expressions.  In the Gudang dialect[29] but two numerals are found—­pirman, 1, and ilabiu, 2; in the Weedookarry, ekkamurda, 1, and kootera, 2; and in the Queanbeyan, midjemban, 1, and bollan, 2.  In a score or more of instances the numerals stop at 3.  The natives of Keppel Bay count webben, 1, booli, 2, koorel, 3; of the Boyne River, karroon, 1, boodla, 2, numma, 3; of the Flinders River, kooroin, 1, kurto, 2, kurto kooroin, 3; at the mouth of the Norman River, lum, 1, buggar, 2, orinch, 3; the Eaw tribe, koothea, 1, woother, 2, marronoo, 3; the Moree, mal, 1, boolar, 2, kooliba, 3; the Port Essington,[30] erad, 1, nargarick, 2, nargarickelerad, 3; the Darnly Islanders,[31]