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painted in squares, with black and white stones for men, and the game is decided by one party losing all his pieces."

Andrews defines ko-na-ne as a game like checkers, a species of pu-ni-pe-ke. The stones are placed on squares, black and white ; then one removes one and the other jumps, as in checkers. He gives pa-pa-mu as the name of the board on which ko-na-ne is played, and i-li-i-li as pebbles, small stones, used in playing ko- na-ne. Also hi-u as the name of the counter, and also to move the hi-u in playing ko-na-ne. Hi-u-hi-u is " to practice sorcery " and also "to play ko-na-ne" Pa-hi-u-hi-u is the "name of a game like ko-na-ne" and " to move by jumping as one does in playing ko-na-ne" Lu-na is the chief piece in the game ko-na-ne.

86. Moo : DRAUGHTS. — Played on a board or diagram {pa-pa ko-na-ne) of 8 by 8 squares (plate XI, d) cut on a flat stone, the alternate squares on which the pieces are placed being marked with crossed diagonal lines. The men {i-li-i-li), twelve on each side, consist of red pebbles {i-li-i-li u-ld) and black pebbles {i-li-i-li e-le-e-le) y which are placed on the marked squares. The play is identical with our game of draughts, except that a king (a-li-i, " chief ") can move or jump any number of squares, like the queen in chess. There are little holes, lu-a, in the center of the marked squares to hold the stones. A king, or a-li-i> is made by putting two stones in the hole. The squares are called ha-le f " houses."

The game above described, which was communicated to me by the four natives, is not mentioned by the name of moo in Andrews' Dictionary. It exactly agrees in the king's move ' with the game of dama or draughts played in the Philippine islands, differing in the men being placed within the squares instead of at the intersection of the lines.

87. Ma-nu : FOX AND GEESE. — Played on a diagram cut on a stone, consisting of four rectangles placed around a square to form a

1 The same as in Polish draughts. Speaking of New Zealand, Tregear says : be ancient."
 * Draughts, mu, some think an introduced game, but I think it can well be proved to

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