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A description of the Chinese modes of gaming, but the principal ones conducted in their Colony, are
1st. Playing cards of paper 木牌 or 紙牌
2nd. Dice and spinning dice
3rd. Lotteries.
4th. Puzzles, called 字花
5th. Fantan, called 番攤
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