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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



TAEAL. 



A backgammou board from Joliore, exhibited by His Highness the 

 Sultau iu the collection of games at the Columbian Exposition under 

 the name of tabal., is represented in fig. 10. It is played with 2 dice, 

 cladu, those exhibited being marked in black and red, like those of 



Fig. 10. 



TABAL (BACKGAMMON) BOARD: JOHORE, MALAY PENINSULA. 



(Fnim sperimen in the Museum of the University oi Pennsylvania.' 



China. The name of the game, tabal, is doubtless from the I'ortuguese 

 tabola or Spanish tabla, and datht from the Portuguese or Spanish dodo, 

 '•a die." 



SUGOROKU. 



The game described by r>r. Hyde agrees in some respects witli the 

 Japanese game of sugorol-u, as illustrated in native encyclopedias. 

 In tig. 11, rei)roduced from the Kum mo dzu e iais ei* the board is 



Fij;. 11. 

 SUGOROKU BOARD: JAPAN. 



represented as being divided into VI parts by longitudinal lines, wliich 

 are broken in the middle by an open space similar to the ho Mi, or 

 "dividing river," of the Chinese chessboard. According to the same 

 work the 12 compartments, called in Japanese me, or "eyes," symbolize 

 tlie 12 months, and the black and white stones, with which the game is 

 played, day and night. 



* "Very Complete Collection of Pictures to Teach tlie Uueulightened." Kiyoto, 

 1789, vol. 4, part 8, tol. 5. 



