Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... 95,741 Hi'va mdno, ma ni'ma dfe, ma Ji'too gnedoo, ma fa ongoqfooloo, ma tdha: that is, nine ten-thousands, and five thousand, and seven hundred, and four tens, audonc. * It must be observed, that there are two words for ten, viz.: ongnfoo'lou, and 00/00, which may be used indifferently for that number simply; but in combinations the former only can be adopted. For twenty there are also two words, viz. oo'a ongofuo'lou, and oo'afoo'loo, either of which may be employed in combination with the digits. In regard to the number of a hundred, lea'oo, it is never used in the plural, gnea'oo being substituted for it: thus, 200 cannot be expressed by oo'a teu'oo, but oo'a gnedoo. In counting out yams and fish, they reckon by pairs, in the particular method explained in the Vocabulary under the word ticctv. What are called ordinal numbers they express by putting the article he immediately before the uumber: this indeed is one mode of forming the plural (see Nouns), thus: a'ko e to'loo, or a ho he to'loo, means the third day, whilst it also signifies three days: but the sense in most instances sufficiently points out the distinction. In connecting cardinal numbers by the conjunction and, they generally use the word ma instead of mo, except before a'fe, a thousand, when mo is more commonly used. The conjunction ma is, however, never employed but for connecting numbers: on other occasions this word is either the preposition for, or the name of a certain preparation of food. It may appear strange that they have particular names for such high numbers as 10,000, and 100,000, mdno, and gi'luo, for they certainly have no use for them. They often have occasion to count yams to the number of a thousand, or more, and sometimes to the amount of two or three..
