THE GAME OF CHAP-JI-KI. 67 
These signs are combined or doubled to represent higher 
values. 
There are many other systems of keeping accounts. 
Similarly there were many devices adopted to avoid being 
detected with Chap-ji-ki cards on the person. In some cases, 
written symbols, strings of beads, in other cases common Chi-ki 
cards, numerals, a certain number of coppers and dollars, and 
fancy hieroglyphics would be used. These dodges were adopted 
to avoid the risk of being arrested in possession of Chap-ji-ki 
cards. J have drawn up achart of the various symbols used 
most commonly in place of the actual Chap-ji-ki. The stake 
(money or notes) was always put up together with this symbol 
(whatever form it took) used in place of the Chap-ji-ki cards 
and carried by the collector to the lottery. 
Nothing is ever stated clearly on the writing paper they 
carry with them. Sometimes the card selected and the money 
staked on it is represented by some hieroglyphics agreed on bet- 
ween the collectors and their clients written ona small piece of 
Chinese white paper, sometimes buttons, sometimes beads are 
used—sometimes the number of spots in a particular kind of 
handkerchief affected by Straits ladies are made up into a signal 
code. Very rarely now, if ever, are the Chap-ji-ki cards them- 
selves used. Occasionally twelve particular cards are selected 
from the straits China-born Malay cards, called Chi-ki cards, 
and these particular twelve cards are then used to represent 
the twelve Chap-ji-ki cards. 
When the collectors have got in all their stakes, they all 
assemble at a certain place, at a certain time. This place is al- 
ways fixed beforehand by the manager; and each collector finds 
her own way there by herself by a different way. Half an hour 
after, or so, the manager appears, and the whole party lock the 
front door for safety ; then they either go upstairs or into a 
back room on the ground floor and open the lottery. 
The lottery is managed in the following way. Lach collector 
(who has already brought her money, i. e., the stakes of all her 
clients) with her and her memorandum (whatever symbolical 
from it may take) as to which card is staked on, comes forward to 
a table at which the manager sits and places her hong or packet 
(i. e., the money staked and the memorandum as to which it is 
staked on) on the table, when everything has been put on the 
