Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. III

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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1846-1859

the rising height of the grass, the falling of the leaves, and the cold and hot season. They very seldom count by new moons. One sun is one day, and they denote the time of day by pointing to the position the sun has attained in the heavens. They believe the Indian Paradise to be beyond the sun, where the Great Spirit sits and rules. Numeration.-They count by decimals, from one to one thou- sand, as I am infomed by the principal chiefs, but they now fre- quently count by the Caddo mode-from one to ten, and by tens to one hundred, &c. COMANCHE One . Two Three Four Five . Six NUMERATION. Sem-mus.

Wa-ha. Pa-hu. Ha-ar-ooh-wa. Mo-wa-ka. Nah-wa. Tah-a-cho-te. Nah-wa-wa-cho-te. Sein-mo-man-ce. Shur-mun. Shum-me-ma-to-e-cut. Wa-ha-ta-ma-to-e-cut.

Seven Eight Nine. Ten Eleven Twelve

Thirteen . Fourteen Fifteen . Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Thirty

. Ta-hu-ma-to-e-cut.

Ha-yar-ook-wa-ma-to-e-cut. Moo-wa-ka-ma-to-e-cut. Nah-wa-ma-to-e-cut. Tah-a-cho-te-ma-to-e-cut. N ah-wa-wa-cho-t~-ma-to-e-cut. Sun-mo-wash-ta-ma-to-e-cut. Wa-ha-ma-mu-ma-to-e-cut. Pa-ha-ma-mu, &c.

They have no accounts; all their business transactions are simple trade and barter. They are ignorant of the elements of figures; even of a perpendicular stroke for 1, 11, &c. They make no grave-posts or monuments indicating the rank of a deceased person. There is little known of their medicines. So far as has been discovered, they are confined to simple roots and herbs. They trust more to incantations made by the medicine-men, who also ble2d in fevers by scarification on the part affected, and not in the veins. Their principal treatment in·diseases is starvation.

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