With respect to the word _Gunjeefu_, which, according to the preceding account, appears to be a general name for cards, I am informed that it is of Persian origin, and that it signifies both a pack of cards and the game. In Bengal, cards are more generally known by the name of _Tas_, which is a Hindoo word, than that by _Gunjeefu_, or _Gangēefah_, as it is otherwise written. From the reference, in the preceding account, to the 'Dictionary, Hindoostanee and English,' edited by the late Dr. Hunter,[57] I am inclined to think that _Taj_ and _Tas_ have the same signification, with reference to cards; and that the only difference between them consists in the pronunciation and mode of spelling. Now, the word _Taj_ is said to signify a crown; but if it be also used figuratively for a king, the wearer of a crown--just as "crown" is figuratively used to signify empire or regal power--the Hindoo name for cards would be synonymous with "Kings." That cards were known in England by the name of the "Four Kings" has been already shown; and if my speculations on the terms _Chartæ_ and _Naipes_ be correct, it was by a name originally signifying four kings, or four viceroys, that cards were first known in Europe. With regard to the game described in the preceding account, it appears to bear some resemblance to that which the French call "l'Ombre à trois,"--three-handed Ombre.[58] In both games the suits appear to be considered as ranged in two divisions: in the Hindostanee game, as the Red and the White; and in the European, as the Red and the Black. In the Hindostanee game there are eight suits, and six or three players; and when three play, the cards are dealt by fours. In the European game of four suits and forty cards--the tens, nines, and eights being omitted--there are three players, and the cards are dealt by threes. A person who can play at Ombre will scarcely fail to perceive several other points of similarity between the two games. From the terms used in the game of Ombre--Spadillo, Basto, Matador, Punto, &c.--there can scarcely be a doubt that the other nations of Western Europe derived their knowledge of it from the Spaniards. The Hon. Daines Barrington, in his 'Observations on the Antiquity of Card Playing in England,' derives the names of the game from the Spanish, "hombre," a man; and there is reason to believe that it was one of the oldest games at cards played at in Europe. If the game of cards were introduced into Europe by the Arabs, it is in Spain that we might first expect to find them. Pietro della Valle, in his Travels in the East, between 1614 and 1626, speaks of the people playing at cards, though differing from ours in the figures and number of suits; and Niebuhr, in his Travels, also speaks of the Arabians playing at cards, and says that the game is called Lab-el-Kammer.[59] It is, however, to be observed, that the game of cards is not once mentioned in the Arabian Nights; and from