Counting above 10 is, however, entirely inconceivable to them, and any number beyond that limit they indicate by _tohaine_, many.

The Conibos,[26] of the same region, had, before their contact with the Spanish, only _atchoupre_, 1, and _rrabui_, 2; though they made some slight progress above 2 by means of reduplication.

The Orejones, one of the low, degraded tribes of the Upper Amazon,[27] have no names for number except _nayhay_, 1, _nenacome_, 2, _feninichacome_, 3, _ononoeomere_, 4.

In the extensive vocabularies given by Von Martins,[28] many similar examples are found.

For the Bororos he gives only _couai_, 1, _maeouai_, 2, _ouai_, 3.