CHAPTER XVI.
 

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the rutting elephant, which in reality has the  most
horrid smell.

In playing chess they move the elephant straight on, on the
not to the other sides, one square at a time, like the chess."
pawn, and to the four corners also one square at a time,
like the queen (firzdn). They say that these five squares
(i.e. the one straight forward and the others at the
corners) are the places occupied by the trunk and the
four feet of the elephant.

They play chess—four persons at a time—with a
pair of dice. Their arrangement of the figures on the
chess-board is the following :—
 

Tower
(ru/.-h}.

Pawn.
 

Horse.
 

Elephant.
 

King.
 


 


 

Pawn.
 

Tower.
Horse.
 

Pawn.
 

Pawn.
 

Pawn.
 


 


 

Pawn.
 


 


 


 


 


 

Pawn.
 

Elephant.
King.
 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Pawn.
 

King.
 

Pawn.
 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Klepliant.
 

Pawn.
 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Horse.
 

Pawn.
 


 


 

Pawn.
 

Pawn.
 

Pawn.
 

Pawn.
 

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Tower.    |    Pawn.

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King.
 

Elepliant.
 

Horse.
 

Tower.