The ball must never be touched with the hand; but the arm, shoulder, knee, or thigh are used at pleasure to rest the foot.

Two or three played very skilfully, keeping the ball continually flying about, but the place was too confined to show off the game to advantage.

One evening a quarrel arose from some dispute in the game, and there was a great row, and it was feared there would be a fight about it--not two men only, but a party of a dozen or twenty on each side, a regular battle with knives and krisses; but after a large amount of talk it passed off quietly, and we heard nothing about it afterwards.
Most Europeans being gifted by nature with a luxuriant growth of hair upon their faces, think it disfigures them, and keep up a continual struggle against her by mowing down every morning the crop which has sprouted up flaring the preceding twenty-four hours.

Now the men of Mongolian race are, naturally, just as many of us want to he.

They mostly pass their lives with faces as smooth and beardless as an infant's.