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one by one, with his thumb and forefinger, continuing until he misses. The next then follows, and so on in turn until the beans are all flipped in the hole. The one who puts the last bean in wins the game.

58. Ki-o~la-o-la. — A play with small stone balls by one person who keeps three in the air at the same time.

Captain King, 1 speaking of the game with a ball of green leaves, says : " They are not less expert at another game of the same nature, tossing up in the air and catching in their turn a number of these balls ; so that we frequently saw little children thus keep in motion five at a time. With this latter play the young people likewise divert themselves at the Friendly islands."

Stair" thus speaks of the game in Samoa : " O fuanga consisted in throwing up a number of oranges in the air, six, seven, or eight, and the object was to keep the whole number in motion at once as the Chinese jugglers do their balls. O le teaunga was also played with a number of oranges, but in this game they were thrown up backwards."

59. Ki-mO'kumo : JACKSTONES. — Played by two or more per- sons with a number of small stones (po-ka-ku). Each player has his own stone, called aJi-i> " chief." The game is practically iden- tical with that played by children in the United States. The stones of all the players are placed on the ground; one begins by tossing his stone up, grabbing the others, tossing them and catch- ing them all together. He continues until he misses. It is em- ployed for gambling purposes. Of this game Ellis * says:

" Timo, or timo timo, was another game [of Tahiti]. The parties sat on the ground, with a heap of stones by their side, held a small round stone in the right hand, which they threw several feet up in the air, and, before it fell, took up one of the stones from the heap, which they held in the right hand till they caught that which they had thrown up, when they threw down the stone they had taken up, tossed the round stone again, and continued taking up a fresh stone every time

1 Vol. in, p. 147. » Page 138. * Vol. I, p. 227.

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