To illustrate the awkward and inconvenient forms of expression which abound in primitive numeral nomenclature, one has only to draw from such scales as those of the Zuni, or the Point Barrow Eskimos, given in the last chapter. Terms such as are found there may readily be duplicated from almost any quarter of the globe. The Soussous of Sierra Leone[126] call 99 _tongo solo manani nun solo manani_, _i.e._ to take (10 understood) 5 + 4 times and 5 + 4. The Malagasy expression for 1832 is[127] _roambistelo polo amby valonjato amby arivo_, 2 + 30 + 800 + 1000. The Aztec equivalent for 399 is[128] _caxtolli onnauh poalli ipan caxtolli onnaui_, (15 + 4) x 20 + 15 + 4; and the Sioux require for 29 the ponderous combination[129] _wick a chimen ne nompah sam pah nep e chu wink a._ These terms, long and awkward as they seem, are only the legitimate results which arise from combining the names of the higher and lower numbers, according to the peculiar genius of each language. From some of the Australian tribes are derived expressions still more complex, as for 6, _marh-jin-bang-ga-gudjir-gyn_, half the hands and 1; and for 15, _marh-jin-belli-belli-gudjir-jina-bang-ga_, the hand on either side and half the feet.[130] The Mare tribe, one of the numerous island tribes of Melanesia,[131] required for a translation of the numeral 38, which occurs in John v. 5, "had an infirmity thirty and eight years," the circumlocution, "one man and both sides five and three." Such expressions, curious as they seem at first thought, are no more than the natural outgrowth of systems built up by the slow and tedious process which so often obtains among primitive races, where digit numerals are combined in an almost endless variety of ways, and where mere reduplication often serves in place of any independent names for higher units. To what extent this may be carried is shown by the language of the Cayubabi,[132] who have for 10 the word _tunca_, and for 100 and 1000 the compounds _tunca tunca_, and _tunca tunca tunca_ respectively; or of the Sapibocones, who call 10 _bururuche_, hand hand, and 100 _buruche buruche_, hand hand hand hand.[133] More remarkable still is the Ojibwa language, which continues its numeral scale without limit, furnishing combinations which are really remarkable; as, _e.g._, that for 1,000,000,000, which is _me das wac me das wac as he me das wac_,[134] 1000 x 1000 x 1000. The Winnebago expression for the same number,[135] _ho ke he hhuta hhu chen a ho ke he ka ra pa ne za_ is no less formidable, but it has every appearance of being an honest, native combination. All such primitive terms for larger numbers must, however, be received with caution. Savages are sometimes eager to display a knowledge they do not possess, and have been known to invent numeral words on the spot for the sake of carrying their scales to as high a limit as possible. The Choctaw words for million and billion are obvious attempts to