. Chess and playing cards. iten, zestig zivarte en zestigwitt€8tukken [i. e. a kind of checkers, with one hundred and twenty small squares, sixtyblack and sixty white pieces]. 1835, Roorda van Eysinga, Algemeen Javaansch enNederdnitscfc woordenboek, p. 622. • Chul i. y[goko] K[rama] [i. e. langage vulgaire et langage ceremoniel] (une sortede jeu de dames). 1875, Fa vie. Diet, , p. 87. Mr. Scott says: I have not searched for the word outside of the Malayan lan-guages. If I were to express an opinion on the scanty records before me, 1 should CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 873 tbe center o
. Chess and playing cards. iten, zestig zivarte en zestigwitt€8tukken [i. e. a kind of checkers, with one hundred and twenty small squares, sixtyblack and sixty white pieces]. 1835, Roorda van Eysinga, Algemeen Javaansch enNederdnitscfc woordenboek, p. 622. • Chul i. y[goko] K[rama] [i. e. langage vulgaire et langage ceremoniel] (une sortede jeu de dames). 1875, Fa vie. Diet, , p. 87. Mr. Scott says: I have not searched for the word outside of the Malayan lan-guages. If I were to express an opinion on the scanty records before me, 1 should CHESS AND PLAYING-CARDS. 873 tbe center of the board are in part occupied with a small raised square{t&rnpatmangJcolc, uipla<ce of bowl), leavingone hundred and twenty points of intersection exposed, on which sixty white and sixty black men (batu,stones) are arranged. Two persons play alternately, letting threedice fall in a bowl, which is set on the raised square in the middle andtaking off the board the pieces of the thrower, according to the
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