It is a good game.

We play it in this ship.

A quartermaster chalks off a diagram like this-on the deck.
The player uses a cue that is like a broom-handle with a quarter-moon of wood fastened to the end of it.

With this he shoves wooden disks the size of a saucer--he gives the disk a vigorous shove and sends it fifteen or twenty feet along the deck and lands it in one of the squares if he can.

If it stays there till the inning is played out, it will count as many points in the game as the figure in the square it has stopped in represents.