CHAPTER II.
NUMBER SYSTEM LIMITS.
With respect to the limits to which the number systems of the various uncivilized races of the earth extend, recent anthropological research has developed many interesting facts.

In the case of the Chiquitos and a few other native races of Bolivia we found no distinct number sense at all, as far as could be judged from the absence, in their language, of numerals in the proper sense of the word.

How they indicated any number greater than _one_ is a point still requiring investigation.

In all other known instances we find actual number systems, or what may for the sake of uniformity be dignified by that name.

In many cases, however, the numerals existing are so few, and the ability to count is so limited, that the term _number system_ is really an entire misnomer.
Among the rudest tribes, those whose mode of living approaches most nearly to utter savagery, we find a certain uniformity of method.