[389] H. M. Schuster, Das Spiel, p. 2.
[390] K. Weinhold, Die deutschen Frauen im Mittelalter, vol. i, p. 115.
[391] J. Büttikofer, Einiges über die Eingeboren von Liberia. Intern. Arch. f. Ethnogr., i (1888).
[392] According to Andrée it is played in Arabia and a large part of Africa. The Berlin Museum has such boards from various African districts, notably one from central Africa, with two rows of six holes and a carved head on the end.
[393] See R. Andrée, Ethnog. Parall. u. Verg. Neue Folge, p. 102. Petermann’s description, which I have not fully transcribed, seems to me to be deficient in that it does not make clear how the reckoning is kept.
[394] H. Petermann, Reisen im Orient, Leipsic, 1860, vol. i, p. 162.
[395] See A. v. d. Linde, Geschichte und Litteratur des Schachspiels, Berlin, 1874, vol. i, note 2.
[396] See T. v. d. Sasa, Zur Geschichte und Litteratur des Schachspiels, Leipsic, 1897, p. 19.
[397] J. Schaller, Das Spiel und die Spiele, p. 247.
[398] E. B. Tylor, On the Game of Patolli in Ancient Mexico and its probably Asiatic Origin. Jour. of the Anthrop. Instit. vol. viii (1878). On American Lot Games as evidence of Asiatic intercourse previous to the time of Columbus. Internat. Archiv. f. Ethnogr., supplement to vol. ix (1896), p. 55.