The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

The Number Concept eBook

Levi L. Conant
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 185 pages of information about The Number Concept.

[349] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, III. ii. p. 64.  The next seven scales are from op. cit., pp. 80, 137, 155, 182, 213.

[350] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 83.

[351] Op. cit., p. 83,—­Akari, p. 84; Circassia, p. 85.

[352] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. i. p. 140.

[353] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 87.

[354] Mueller, Sprachwissenschaft, II. ii. p. 346.

[355] Op. cit., III. i. p. 130.

[356] Man, E.H., “Brief Account of the Nicobar Islands,” Journ.  Anthr.  Inst., 1885, p. 435.

[357] Wells, E.R., Jr., and Kelly, J.W., “Eng.  Esk. and Esk.  Eng.  Vocab.,” Bureau of Education Circular of Information, No. 2, 1890, p. 65.

[358] Petitot, E., Vocabulaire Francaise Esquimau, p. lv.

[359] Boas, Fr., Proc.  Brit.  Ass.  Adv.  Sci., 1889, p. 857.

[360] Boas, Sixth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada, p. 117.

[361] Boas, Fr., Fifth Report on the Northwestern Tribes of Canada, p. 85.

[362] Gallatin, Semi-Civilized Nations, p. 114.  References for the next two are the same.

[363] Bancroft, H.H., Native Races of the Pacific States, Vol.  II. p. 763.  The meanings are from Brinton’s Maya Chronicles, p. 38 et seq.

[364] Brinton, Maya Chronicles, p. 44.

[365] Simeon Remi, Dictionnaire de la langue nahuatl, p. xxxii.

[366] An error occurs on p. xxxiv of the work from which these numerals are taken, which makes the number in question appear as 279,999,999 instead of 1,279,999,999.

[367] Gallatin, “Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico and Central America,” Tr.  Am.  Ethn.  Soc. Vol.  I. p. 114.

[368] Pott, Zaehlmethode, p. 89.  The Totonacos were the first race Cortez encountered after landing in Mexico.

[369] Op. cit., p. 90.  The Coras are of the Mexican state of Sonora.

[370] Gallatin, Semi-Civilized Nations, p. 114.

[371] Humboldt, Recherches, Vol.  II. p. 112.

[372] Squier, Nicaragua, Vol.  II. p. 326.

[373] Gallatin, Semi-Civilized Nations, p. 57.

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