n with the scales themselves, which are given, roughly speaking,
in their geographical order, beginning with the Eskimo of the far north.
The systems of some of the tribes are as follows:

ALASKAN ESKIMOS.[357]

10. koleet.
20. enuenok.
30. enuenok kolinik = 20 + 10.
40. malho kepe ak = 2 x 20.
50. malho-kepe ak-kolmik che pah ak to = 2 x 20 + 10.
60. pingi shu-kepe ak = 3 x 20.
100. tale ma-kepe ak = 5 x 20.
400. enue nok ke pe ak = 20 x 20.

TCHIGLIT.[358]

10. krolit.
20. kroleti, or innun = man.
30. innok krolinik-tchikpalik = man + 2 hands.
40. innum mallerok = 2 men.
50. adjigaynarmitoat = as many times 10 as the fingers of the hand.
60. innumipit = 3 men.
70. innunmalloeronik arveneloerit = 7 men?
80. innun pinatcunik arveneloerit = 8 men?
90. innun tcitamanik arveneloerit = 9 men?
100. itchangnerkr.
1000. itchangner-park = great 100.

The meanings for 70, 80, 90, are not given by Father Petitot, but are of
such a form that the significations seem to be what are given above. Only a
full acquaintance with the Tchiglit language would justify one in giving
definite meanings to these words, or in asserting that an error had been
made in the numerals. But it is so remarkable and anomalous to find the
decimal and vigesimal scales mingled in this manner that one involuntarily
suspects either incompleteness of form, or an actual mistake.

TLINGIT.[359]

10. djinkat = both hands?
20. tle ka = 1 man.
30. natsk djinkat = 3 x 10.
40. dak'on djinkat = 4 x 10.
50. kedjin djinkat = 5 x 10.
60. tle durcu djinkat = 6 x 10.
70. daqa durcu djinkat = 7 x 10.
80. natska durcu djinkat = 8 x 10.
90. gocuk durcu djinkat = 9 x 10.
100. kedjin ka = 5 men, or 5 x 20.
200. djinkat ka = 10 x 20.
300. natsk djinkat ka = 30 men.
400. dak'on djinkat ka = 40 men.

This scale contains a strange commingling of decimal and vigesimal
counting. The words for 20, 100, and 200 are clear evidence of vigesimal,
while 30 to 90, and the remaining hundreds, are equally unmistakable proof
of decimal, numeration. The word _ka_, man, seems to mean either 10 or 20;
a most unusual occurrence. The fact that a number system is partly decimal
and partly vigesimal is found to be of such frequent occurrence that this
point in the Tlingit scale need excite no