1. Çla-futs-u-tsi, Little Winter. 2. Ho-ta-li-ha-si, Wind Moon. 3. Ho-ta-li-ha-si-çlak-o, Big Wind Moon. 4. Ki-ha-su-tsi, Little Mulberry Moon. 5. Ki-ha-si-çlat-o, Big Mulberry Moon. 6. Ka-too-ha-si. 7. Hai-yu-tsi. 8. Hai-yu-tsi-çlak-o. 9. O-ta-wus-ku-tsi. 10. O-ta-wus-ka-çlak-o. 11. I-ho-li. 12. Çla-fo-çlak-o, Big Winter.
I suppose that the spelling of these words could be improved, but I reproduce them phonetically as nearly as I can, not making what to me would be desirable corrections. The months appear to be divided simply into days, and these are, in part at least, numbered by reference to successive positions of the moon at sunset. When I asked Täl-la-häs-ke how long he would stay at his present camp, he made reply by pointing, to the new moon in the west and sweeping his hand from west to east to where the moon would be when he should go home. He meant to answer, about ten days thence. The day is divided by terms descriptive of the positions of the sun in the sky from dawn to sunset.
The Florida Indians can count, by their system, indefinitely. Their system of numeration is quinary, as will appear from the following list:
1. Hûm-kin. 2. Ho-_ko-lin_. 3. To-_tei-nin_. 4. _Os-tin_. 5. Tsaq-ke-pin. 6. I-pa-kin. 7. _Ko-lo_-pa-kin. 8. _Tci-na_-pa-kin 9. _Os-ta_-pa-kin. 10. Pa-lin. 11. Pa-lin-hûm-kin, _i.e._, ten one, &c. 20. Pa-li-ho-ko-lin, _i.e._, two tens.
As a guide towards a knowledge of the primitive manner of counting the method used by an old man in his intercourse with me will serve. He wished to count eight. He first placed the thumb of the right hand upon the little finger of the left, then the right forefinger upon the next left hand finger, then the thumb on the next finger, and the forefinger on the next, and then the thumb upon the thumb; leaving now the thumb of the right hand resting upon the thumb of the left, he counted the remaining numbers on the right hand, using for this purpose the fore and middle fingers of the left; finally he shut the fourth and little fingers of the right hand down upon its palm, and raising his hands, thumbs touching, the counted fingers outspread, he showed me eight as the number of horses of which I had made inquiry.
