 | Francis Galton - Biography & Autobiography - 1853 - 352 pages
...their ignorance of all numerical ideas is very annoying. In practice, whatever they may possess hi their language, they certainly use no numeral greater...secure the fingers that are required for " units." Yet they seldom lose oxen : the way in which they discover the loss of one, is not by the number of... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 pages
...take to their fingers which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much...and secure the fingers that are required for units. Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which they discover the loss of one is not hy the number of... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1864 - 332 pages
...African Damaras have no numerals beyond three. They calculate on their fingers, and are terribly puzzled after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp...and secure the fingers that are required for units. f Many doubtless were the stages by which nations passed from the vague idea of multitude to the definite... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1864 - 342 pages
...African Damaras have no numerals beyond three. They calculate on their fingers, and are terribly puzzled after five, because no spare hand remains to grasp...and secure the fingers that are required for units. t Many doubtless were the stages by which nations passed from the vague idea of multitude to the definite... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...him. Mr. Francis Gal ton, in an amusing account of the Damaras, in his Narrative of an Exploration in Tropical South Africa, remarks of them : " In practice,...stage of thought when all beyond two was an idea of indefinite number. We can discern the various stages which have, in certain nations, marked the passage... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 556 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much...secure the fingers that are required for units."* Mr. Crawfurd, to whom we are indebted for an interesting paper on this subject, f has examined no less... | |
 | John George Wood - Ethnology - 1868 - 802 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much...secure the fingers that are required for 'units.' Yet they seldom lose oxen: the way in which they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the... | |
 | Science - 1893 - 902 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much...and secure the fingers that are required for units. Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1873 - 512 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much...because no spare hand remains to grasp and secure the the godlike intellect evidently will not apply here. If the emotions of the German and his intellectual... | |
 | james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding rule is to an English school-boy. They puzzle very much...because no spare hand remains to grasp and secure the the godlike intellect evidently will not apply here. If the emotions of the German and his intellectual... | |
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Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. 
