Games of
are also the same ; except that the king, if.-he has not been checked, .may
move tWo squares the first time, either as a knight or otherwise ; and that
the pawn may move two squarfes the-first move,' even though it should pass
the cheèk of an adversary’s pawn. When a pawn reaches the'adversary’s
first line,J it-’must retrograde three moves diagonally before it can! become a
queen, excêpt ithas'reache’d the castle’s square, in whichrcase*it is a queen
at once. There may be, any number of queens on the board’.at Once.' •>
The king cannot castle: after having been checked. Castling is performed
by two moves the castle must first be brought up ter the king, after which
the king may* pass over the castle a t1 any future ’move, provided he 'shall
nót havé' been" checked, orr that no' piece has occupied' thtesquare he Would
möve into. A 'piece or pawn must remain on the board till the4ast;*if the
Trfncr is left aloöe i t 'is considered sis $ tale mate) - and hë wins.
This g’am'e was formerly more general* than at present.
Besides' 6hess, there axe-a-Variety-of games played upon -çheèkers ;- and
nekt to it in estimation màÿ be’considered the games of chuki and ddkon.
In chuki,' the board’has one hundred .and twènty»angular points, formed, by
crbss fines on'a checkered board, 'and the same is playetkwith' sixty*white
and. sixty black pieces; - The object here is to clear the _boar’d> o f the
adversary’s pièces; and the-victor is he who does so first. The parties toss up
Who shall take off therikst piece or break the board.* —The .moves' are-inall
directions/and the person-who comm’ences goes on-as long as he can take one,
thrPOj dr five of his adversary’s piÇceSi -Whenhecaûüot do<e!î^t h^s};pps,
and the other goes on in the same way. Ddkon is. played with -fourteen or
eighteen balls on San oblong hoard with holés, and-is much >practised_by_ women.
' Dariddman, of drafts, is-hot vefy unlike thte Indian game,, but has more
pieces.
MacJidnan is a game in which two chief pieces represent, rigers,-~pne{Gg&>
ducted by each party, and twenty-three pieces representing cows : the,tiger
who destroys the most wins the game. Mdlingyan is played on squares'with
eighteen pièces, »and the object is to surround your, adversary’s'pieçest
. Of games of chânèe -there are many; That denominated. -, telaga tdri is
accounted the most ancient: i t . consists dn - guessing the number of beans
enclosed within the hand. Three .or four people .'commonly'join in it. One of
the party having dried beans in his lap, takes a certain number in his hand,
requiring each of the- others to fix by guess upon a number ; if there are
three persons, Upon a number from one to four, and the two numbers left
•' fall
fell to the share of- the^person-who holds.the. beans. If the n.umber jn his
hand exceeds four/ievery- four beans are thrown .aside, and the , fesidjie,
fttttil they-are redyced-to-that .number or below.it, only .counted. .
Dadu, or dice, as well as<-caids,..are borrowed from the Chinese,. and not
included among.the national g-ame^. . The most common species of gaming,
and- that-which- is- practised- by - the. numerous and dissolute .class of bdtursK
or‘porters-, in the -central districts,^' a kind o f pitch .and toss, denominated
m ie k. Four' farthings,-' Whitened; p r -marked on one .side, .are tossed into
the air ; if the whole dr three Of them fall on the.side that .is marked, or on
the reverse, the party who.tpsseddhem wins ; if. only .two, ihe loses;the stake,
•Bets- are .frequently laid ofethe hardness, or. otherwise, of. a particular npt,
known among the Makk/us by'tfhe-term %pa.kmsr. and galled Muh gejnin^
Bets also-frequentiy-depend On the-flyi pg-of kites {Xaydvg’m } . ^ ^ * - ■
I shall- cdhblude this chapter-by referring to..some peculiarities, Whicii,,
although p a r t i a l l y explained eteeWhefe;- and felling .perhaps JPPte; cprrectiy
uiider ‘dtiieriheads, inay not-be improperly noticed., m an account pt the,
national usages and customs,? H fflH 1 ! W B B I f f i
. The-practice bf fling »nd dying ,Uie. tenth,-black, that of le n g th e n «
H H g of l ie ear-toan enormous s iK v both ®if wlucli,,hiive. been. .already
noticed, lappear- to have untended over t h e . » « of tbe.eartem peranfula.of
India,-as far as,China, and throughout tha/islands. of the Archipelago, ,as
far at least as Papua oriNew Guinea. t j
C :T-he’-practice o f covering tihe-ifoe,' -body, and limbs with.yellpw^ppwAej
IBl I W W i and the use of- yellow--silk or satin..for .the. § g | g §SlS
1 letters betvvebn-1 princes, evinces the, same esteem .for 4)113.1 colour „which
prevails" in ;the other islands, as well- -as in Ava; -Siam,: and China, - -
- ^ :The krises worn by the Javans are only Varieties-of that whreh..is QPU
i'n'theiislaOds, and on What i s ‘termed the= Malayan.pqm°sula- -,The. Javaps
have a tradition- thatitif was first .introduced by ope- of their..early Hindu
f e w g n s , SaMtrcm H H H g Sn w ta is said to have
come into the world-with the. t o i f Ins-side.. This t o is g g j g g l ■
b e e n o f t h e k i n d c a l l e d pasopdti, y h f e l ^ f e ^ c o n s e q u e n t l y . c o n s i d e r e d , a s t h e
M k honourable- atithe present day.. In the. chapter..orxHistcty vt. e
found An account of the R } deposited in the-tomb. -of .th e rm a l* Gjrj-,
tod' of t f e ' virtues attributed to-ifohy the--superstitions .of the H H 1
There is a' tradition,; that-, the inhabitants of all those countries. g wfech
tia&krls is now worn, once acknowledged the authority of the Javans, an
derived that custom from them. - - Another tradition, attributes, t
Other customs
and usages.