The latter is largely made up of slang and colloquial words, and presents many difficulties. The games described in it, as in those intended to follow it, are chiefly those of the Chinese laborers in America, a limitation found as acceptable as it is necessary, since even among these people who all come from a comparatively small area, there exist variations in their methods of gambling, as well as in the terminology of their games. This paper is intended as the first of a series on Chinese games, to be continued by similar accounts of dominoes, playing cards, and chess. The graphics are slightly edited copies from sketches accompanying the original text.
The paper was scanned from a photocopy of the printed text, edited in a wordprocesser, then created as a Webpage. Transcribed from his text, and are presented within the limitations imposed by HTML. Words in Chinese and Japanese with diacritical marks are His spelling and sentence structure have been maintained, but some punctuation has been altered. Note: For the most part, this is a direct transcription of the paper by Culin.
(Read before The Oriental Club of Philadelphia, March 14, 1889)
