ON NUMERALS AS SIGNS OF PRIMEVAL UNITY AMONG MANKIND. BY ROBERT ELLIS, B.D., LATE FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL. 1873. All rights reserved. CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction - 1 The origin of numerals, and the resulting problem which they pre- - The Ethiopian (= Trans-Saharic or South African) ‘five', or t-n hand-five-its parallels in Australia, Eastern Asia, and North- The Ethiopian 'ten', or k-m hand five —its parallels in Northern The Basqueten'-Ethiopian or Trans-Saharic element in the Basque language-three races or nations, Cynetæ, Iberi, Celta, mentioned by the ancients in the Spanish peninsula |