The astrologer's title is Meda Gantia, or Counter of Posts.

The above facts demonstrate that counting is a faculty acquired with difficulty after considerable mental progress, and primitive man apparently did not feel the necessity for it.

[128] But if he could not count, it seems a proper deduction that his eye would not distinguish a number of animals of the same species together, because the ability to do this, and to appraise distinct individuals of like appearance appears to depend ultimately on the faculty of counting.

Major Hendley, a doctor and therefore a skilled observer, states that the Bhils were unable to distinguish colours or to count numbers, apparently on account of their want of words to express themselves.

[129] Now it seems clearly more easy for the eye to discriminate between opposing colours than to distinguish a number of individuals of the same species together.