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number, or succeeded in putting back the odd one, the next 

 player calls upon him to strike with his baita any cashew 

 he points out on the ground. If he succeeds in this he 

 has won the game, but if in striking he holes his baita, or 

 strikes any other cashew nut than the one pointed out, he 

 goes out and is succeeded by the next player. This game 

 is also played with "Battels", " Kurnburuetta" , and some- 

 times also with " copper challies." 



Walenameya (0(*^53©cs) or nine holes, is played 

 with the bean called Kumburuetia* any number may 

 play it. Nine holes in three rows of three each, about 

 six inches apart are made in the ground, and bounded on 

 three sides by banks of earth, or pieces of stick, each 

 player puts into a hole as many beans as there are players. 

 An offing or boundary fifteen or twenty feet away, is marked 

 off, from which each player bowls or rather shoots a bean 

 into the holes, Should this bean fall into the centre 

 hole, the player is winner and takes the beans in all the 

 holes, should it fall into any other hole he takes only the 

 beans in that hole. Should a player send his bean into 

 a hole already emptied he forfeits the original number, 

 which must be put back into that hole. 



Kundubatu (^g^)Q) played with the bean Pus- 

 bat u,f is a favorite game with smaller boys, and takes 

 very much the same place in the Singhalese play ground 

 which marbles do in the English. The beans selected are 

 round small ones, artificially flattened by the application 

 of heat and pressure. Two holes about fifteen feet apart, 



* Guliandina bonduc. 

 t Entada pursaetha. 



