If the person thus pointed out is the hider of the article, he shows it, and his side loses, and the opposition side takes its turn; if, however, he has not the article, then the one who has it says, “_Eh! nabuti mwana_” (Oh! I have given birth to a child), and shows the article. It then counts one game to them, and is called _mwana wawi_ = one child. 8. _Liba._ A game with palm nuts (and this very often precedes _peke_, or backgammon). In _liba_ they throw up a palm nut, and then before it falls they swoop up with the right hand as many palm nuts as they can, and put them down to catch the descending nut before it touches the ground. The one who picks up most in an agreed number of throws wins the game. 9. _Peke_ (kind of _mancala_, or African backgammon). A number of holes are made in a circle on the ground, and the players either take as many palm nuts as they can in so many handfuls, or procure them as in _liba_ (see game 8); then they put one nut into each hole, and the one whose nuts pass the holes of the other’s, wins; if his nuts fall short of the other’s, he loses. The game is very complicated, and its rules little understood by any European. 10. _Lobesi_, or the game of pitch-and-toss with six counters. The counters are called _mbesi_; the light side of the counter is _nke_, the dark side is _mpili_. The stakes (_libeta_) are taken up when the counters in three throws either fall dark side up (_mpili_), or light side up (_nke_), or three of each (_miu matu_ = three eyes). The person putting down the stakes is _mobeti wa libeta_, the place of playing is _ekali_, and the turn to play is _ngala_, and _pula_ is to demand a second set of throws with the _mbesi_. In this game there is always a large amount of gambling for brass rods and anything else of value, in fact, slaves are sometimes staked on the throw. I never knew it to be played except for gambling purposes.