"In order to guard a second-rate card which may enable you hereafter to recover the lead, it is customary to throw down a small one of that suit, and call the card you are desirous to have played. With this call the adversaries must comply. As in Whist, when the person who has the lead holds none but winning cards, they are thrown down. After the cards have been all played, the parties shuffle their tricks, and the last winner, drawing a card, challenges one of his adversaries to draw out any card from the heap before him, naming it the fourth or fifth, &c. from the top or bottom. The winner of this trick in like manner challenges his right-hand adversary. The number of cards in the possession of each party is then counted, and those who have fewest are obliged to purchase from an adversary to make up their deficiency of complement. The greatest winner at the end of four rounds has the game. "The following terms used in the game may be acceptable to those who desire to understand it when played by natives: I think they unequivocally prove that _Gunjeefu_ is of Persian or Arabian origin. "Zubur-dust, the right-hand player. Zer-dust, the left-hand player. Zurb, a trick. Ser, a challenge. Ser-k'hel, the challenging game. Ekloo, a sequence of three cards. Khurch, the card played to one led; not a winning card. K´hel java, to lay down the winning card at the end of a deal. Chor, the cards won at the end of a deal; the sweep. Ghulutee, a misdeal. Wuruq, a card. Durhum-kurna, to shuffle. Wuruq-turashna, to cut the cards. "From my observation of the game when played, I do not think it sufficiently interesting to cause its being preferred by Europeans to the cards in vogue in Europe. The number of the suits are too great, and the inconvenient form of the cards (the size and shape of which are represented by the plates[56]) are great objections. The Hindoostanee cards are made of paper, well varnished; the figures appropriately painted, and the ground and backs of every suit of one colour. The Slave standing before the King in No. 3, is the figure used as the spot or crest on all the common cards of that suit.... The tradition regarding the origin of the Hindoostanee cards is, that they were invented by a favorite _sultana_, or queen, to wean her husband from a bad habit he had acquired of pulling or eradicating his beard."