Dolasses

The dolasses of the Kaffirs and Eottentots nsed for divination are not onr dice, trat snbsti tutea for them. Preciaely the same thiDgs eerved in the most ancient time for dice, and these are knuckle bones, which, under the name of astialgi, children played with in old Qreece aDd Rome. We have today a beantiful fiotique statne of a girl playiug with knuckle bones. The Mashonas nse somethiug made of bone which resembles the Eoman tali. These dolasses do not bear mirubers, bnfc peculiar, small incised pictnres. Mr. Bent, in his "Rnined Cities of Mashonaland," describes these dolassee.