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Updated: May 12, 2025
The bets were made as to who held the marked stick and in which hand, then a show of hands was made and the game was lost and won. From "hand" they passed to ahikia, a game like that of dice, played with figured beaver teeth or disks of ivory, which were tossed up, everything depending on the combination of figures presented in their fall. It was played recklessly.
Maddened, furious, like a lion in the toils, the desperate savage staked his wives and children on the throw of the ahikia, and they were swept from him into perpetual slavery. Then he rose up and glared upon his opponents, with his tomahawk clinched in his hand, as if feeling dimly that he had been wronged, thirsting for vengeance, ready to strike, yet not knowing upon whom the blow should fall.
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