. Chess and playing cards. out India,where it is practiced as a science under the name of Ramalaf and has 1 Cat, Xo. 175659, Gift of Stewart Traditional Games of England, Ireland, and Scotland, London, 1894, I. p. 326. 3 Cat. No. 7134, Mob. Univ. Penn. * Cat. Xos. 9051, 9052. lias. Univ. Penn. 5 The originals are of red sandalwood. Derived from the Arabic rami isaud). Geomaucy is known by the Arabs asilmu-1-raml, or the science of Band. Upon this sand (for which papei i>. however,sometimes substituted), they draw many unequal lines, upon which are disposed a
. Chess and playing cards. out India,where it is practiced as a science under the name of Ramalaf and has 1 Cat, Xo. 175659, Gift of Stewart Traditional Games of England, Ireland, and Scotland, London, 1894, I. p. 326. 3 Cat. No. 7134, Mob. Univ. Penn. * Cat. Xos. 9051, 9052. lias. Univ. Penn. 5 The originals are of red sandalwood. Derived from the Arabic rami isaud). Geomaucy is known by the Arabs asilmu-1-raml, or the science of Band. Upon this sand (for which papei i>. however,sometimes substituted), they draw many unequal lines, upon which are disposed acertain number of points, from the combinations of which they pretend to foretell 824 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. an extensive literature. There are several different methods, in all ofwhich the dice are used as implements of magie to determine number,reference then being had to the pages of a book numbered to agree in general with the Chinese methods of divination witharrow-staves. (See ^sos. Go, 69.).
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