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When we come to twenty, we have cempoalli, "one counting;" that is, one whole man, fingers and toes corresponding to the Vei word for twenty, "a person is finished." I think we need no more examples to show that people in almost all countries reckon by fives, tens, or twenties, merely because they began to count upon their fingers and toes.
We may carry the theory further. The Vei language counts from one up to nineteen, and for twenty says mo bande "a person is finished" that is, both fingers and toes. I venture to add another suggestion. Here the Mexican numerals will afford us a new illustration.
They discussed the strange madness that had possessed Iuda Iskalota, that he had first bought land with his forty pieces of silver and then hanged himself to a purau tree. Was it cocoanut land? they asked. Was it not good land? Often across the worn stones of the paepae stole a vei, a centipede, upon which a bare foot quickly stamped.
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