In this connection it is worth noting that these Pacific island number scales have been developed to very high limits--in some cases into the millions.

The numerals for these large numbers do not seem in any way indefinite, but rather to convey to the mind of the native an idea as clear as can well be conveyed by numbers of such magnitude.

Beyond the limits given, the islanders have indefinite expressions, but as far as can be ascertained these are only used when the limits given above have actually been passed.

To quote one more example, the Hervey Islanders, who have a binary-decimal scale, count as follows: 5 kaviri (bunches of cocoanuts) = 1 takau = 20.
10 takau = 1 rau = 200.
10 rau = 1 mano = 2000.
10 mano = 1 kiu = 20,000.
10 kiu = 1 tini = 200,000.
Anything above this they speak of in an uncertain way, as _mano mano_ or _tini tini_, which may, perhaps, be paralleled by our English phrases "myriads upon myriads," and "millions of millions."[205] It is most remarkable that the same quarter of the globe should present us with the stunted number sense of the Australians, and, side by side with it, so extended and intelligent an appreciation of numerical values as that possessed by many of the lesser tribes of Polynesia.
The Luli of Paraguay[206] show a decided preference for the base 4.

This preference gives way only when they reach the number 10, which is an ordinary digit numeral.