arfinek-pingasut = to the other hand 3.
9.

arfinek-sisamat = to the other hand 4.
10.

kulit.
The same process is now repeated, only the feet instead of the hands are used; and the completion of the second 10 is marked by the word _innuk_, man.

It may be that the Eskimo word for 5 is, originally, a digital word, but if so, the fact has not yet been detected.

From the analogy furnished by other languages we are justified in suspecting that this may be the case; for whenever a number system contains digital words, we expect them to begin with _five_, as, for example, in the Arawak scale,[72] which runs: 1.