In the exhibit of the State of Liberia at Chicago, / there were no less than eleven boards, comprising three different forms, said to be from the Deys, Yeys, Pesseh, Gedibo, and Queah. (Figs. 8, 9, and 10.) They were catalogued under the name of Poo, by which name the game is known to civilized… … Fig. 11. BOAED FOR GABATTA (MANCALA). Abyssinia. From a figure in the "Sacred City of tlie Ethiopians," hy J. T. Bent. In the narrative of the Portuguese embassy of Alvarez to Abyssinia (1520-1527) reference is made to "Mancal" as an unknown game, anti- quated in the reign of Don Manuel. Bent has…
Mancala (Game) · Games
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