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Thus the natives reckon by scores, marking each score by their fingers, or by pieces of stick: they go on without the smallest difficulty or embarassment in counting as far as twenty score, or catteekow-catteekow, but beyond that number I believe they seldom enumerate; contenting themselves with repeating the word catteekow a great many times when the number exceeds the limits of their calculation: thus, were you to enquire the population of their island, the answer would be catteekow, tungata-catteekow, catteekow, repeated ten Rh