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are known as misè (strings); the spaces A—F as rumòh (houses). Each player (there are usually only two) has a fruit of the lumbé or leumbé[1] as a ball to play the game with (bòh). The first player begins by throwing his ball into rumòh A, and then hops up to it without touching
the line (euë) and kicks it back with his free foot. Then he hops back within the boundary close to which he stops, plants his feet together and leaps over it, taking care to land with one of his feet covering the bòh. Should the player in the course of any of these operations come into contact with the euë or the misè, or should he hop badly, or fall or fail to alight on his bòh when he leaps, then he is dead, and the opposite side plays.
If the first turn is successful the same is done with rumòh B and so on till all the spaces have been visited. In kicking back the bòh out of the spaces B—F, it is not counted as a fault if the bòh lands in another rumòh and not beyond the boundaries, always provided that no boundary is touched.
The winning side sometimes refuses to give the losers their revenge except on the condition of the latter's playing their bòh up through the
- ↑ We have noticed this tree above Vol. I, pp. 411–412 as the dread abode of jéns, who cause goitre and other diseases.
