him the ring and drugs; he then enters the frightful barrier, and, after many adventures, arrives at the city of the silver mountain, and makes known his presence to his beautiful bride, by dropping the ring into a vessel of water, which a damsel is conveying to the bath of the princess. The princess, on finding the ring, inquires of one of the damsels what has happened at the lake, who tells her, that they found a young spirit resting himself, and that he assisted one of the maids to place the vessel of water on her head. The princess cries out, “Oh my husband, come and take me.” The king, her father, is angry that any mortal should presume to enter his country and claim his daughter, he makes him go through trials of riding elephants and horses, and shooting arrows, in which the prince acquits himself surprisingly, but the king insists on his selecting the little finger of Manauhurree from among those of her sisters, thrust through a screen; this he does by the assistance of the king of the Nats. Then, as in a European play, every one is made happy and comfortable. Perhaps, indeed, the game of chess does not methodically fall in immediately after the consideration of the drama, yet I cannot allow the Burman game, their chief sedentary amusement, to pass without notice. As their principal in-door game, indeed, it may not seem inopportune to place it here. The form of the chess-board, and the manner of arrangement, will be readily understood by the accompanying diagram:[183]— [Illustration: ----------------- |3| | | | | | |3| |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| | |1|4|5|5| | |3| |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| | |4|2|6|6|6|6|6| |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| |6|6|6|\|/| | | | |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| |3| | |/|\|6|6|6| |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| |6|6|6|6|6|2|4| | |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| | | | |5|5|4|1| | |-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| |3| | | | | | |3| ----------------- REFERENCES. 1 Meng The king. 2 Chekoy Lieut.-General. 3,3 Rutha War chariot. 4,4 Chein Elephants. 5,5 Mhee Cavalry. 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6 Yein Foot soldiers.] The Burman name for chess is Chit-tha-reen, a name applied by them to the chief ruler, or leader of an army, or to war itself.