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never occur separated from the pronoun termination; this may be ex- plained by saying that in common conversation the ideas are never separated.

Numerals.

The Numerals are almost identical with those used by the Maliseets, and closely resemble Otchipwe numerals; one is m'wolzt in Micmac and newkt, as given by Montague Chamberlain in Maliseet. One section of the Otchipwe tribe uses m'ngo or ninko, and another bdsbik, for the first numeral, the former word resembling m‘wokt, and the latter béIwo/c which is the name given by the Micmacs to the first lake on a river. It is worthy of note that those sections of the Otchipwe tribe which do not now use ningo for ‘one,’ still use a com- pound of the word ningotwasswz' for six, the first finger of the new hand,—for counting was done on the fingers and toes, as with our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, who made a ‘score’ on the beam after each twenty toes and fingers had been enumerated and they began over again or on a new man. Notice too that the Eskimo always began the new score by counting the digits on a new man, as their word for ‘a score,’ twenty, is the same as their word for man; and picture five men standing up in a line to represent a hundred. The numeral ‘six,’ and the teens,in Micmac difler entirely from those of kindred lang- uages, while ‘five’ the last finger on the first hand, is almost identical throughout; it is mm both in Micmac and Maliseet, while it is namm in Otchipwe and nianan in Cree.

Baraga gives a separate chapter of twenty-three pages to the study of Otchipwe numerals where but a limited space is available for that purpose here.

Cardinals One, mica/{‘1 Two, taboo Three, sésl (mix) Four, ndoo Five, mm Six, usaakum