Note 7 — Chapter IX · THE DAIMIOS
Reading edition
A gambling game analogous to the “white-pigeon card” of China (Pak kop piu), at which much money is lost by families. A head office issues papers upon which the eighty first characters of the “Thousand Characters Classic” are printed in rows. These may be purchased for any price the purchaser chooses to lay upon them. During the night ten characters are marked by the office. The purchaser marks ten, and speculates upon his hitting some or all of the same as were marked at the office.