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Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 
Djamo and Poo. 
The games of Djamo and Poo, played in Liberia, and the game of Kale,"^ 
practised by the Fans inhabiting the valley of the Gaboon Eiver, are 
practically identical with Aniiana ; and games of the same type are played 
as far south at least as Elmina in Angola, as witness the board depicted 
in Plate XY, Fig. 2. 
The Egyptian Game of Mankal'ali. 
The Egyptian game of ManTcal'ah, of which a full description is given 
by Lane,t is also very much like Annana. It is played, according to Lane, 
on a board of twelve holes arranged in two rows, with seventy-two small 
shells (cowries) or pebbles. 
There are two modifications of the game that differ from one another 
in the manner in which the pieces are distributed at the start of a contest. 
In the so-called game of the ignorants " one of the parties distributes 
all the pieces (hasa) unequally among all the holes (beyts) generally by 
putting at least four in each hole. 
In the so-called " game of the wise, or intelligent," the pieces are 
distributed in one or more holes on one side and in the corresponding hole 
or holes on the other side. Commonly in four holes on each side, leaving 
the two extreme holes at opposite ends of the board vacant (^^-3, a-4, a-5, 
a-6 and J-2, 1-4 in Fig. 8, I ; or about half the pieces are put in 
the end hole of one row and the remainder in the diagonally opposite end 
hole on the opposite side (a-6 and l-l in Fig. 8, I). The person who 
distributes the pieces does rot count how many he places in the holes^ 
and should his adversary object to the distribution he may turn the board 
round. 
The mode of progression in both gam.es is the £ame as in Annana, and a 
move continues until the last of the pieces taken up by one of the players is 
dropped into an empty hole or into a hole containing one or three pieces, 
thereby completing two or four. In the former event the move stops. In 
the latter event the player takes the two or four pieces together with those 
in the hole opposite. If one or more of the holes preceding the one in which 
the move ends also contain two or four pieces, no hole with any other 
number intervening, he is moreover entitled to take the contents of these 
holes + together ^ith the contents of those opposite. Play continues until 
the board is cleared, T\hen each party counts the number of pieces he has 
* Cf. Culin, loc. cit. 
t Cf, An Accovnt of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptia^is, pp. 315-317.. 
X Pres-umably cii]y ■v\ljeri the holes in question are on his side of the board. 
