dancing, increafed fo inuch, that it was fcarcely poffible to
diftinguiih the different movements; though one might
fuppofe the aftors were now almoit tired, as their performance
had lafted near half an hour.
After a confiderable interval, another aft, as we may call
it, began. Twelve men now advanced, who placed them-
felves in double rows fronting each other, but on oppofite
fides of the circle; and, on one fide, a man was ftationed,
who, as if he had been a prompter, repeated feveral fentences,
to which the twelve new performers, and the chorus,
replied. They then fung flowly ; and afterward danced and
fung more quickly, for about a quarter of an hour, after
the manner of the dancers whom they had fucceeded.
Soon after they hadfinifhed, nine women exhibited them-
felves, and fat down fronting the hut where the Chief was.
A man then rofe, and {truck the firft of thefe women on the
back, with both fifts joined. He proceeded, in the fame
manner, to the fecond and third; but when he came to the
fourth, whether from accident or defign I cannot tell, in-
itead of the back, he flruck her on the breaft. Upon this, a
perfon rofe inftantly from the crowd, who brought him to
the ground with a blow on the head; and he was carried
off without the leaft noife or diforder. But. this did not fave
the other five women from fo odd a difcipline, or perhaps
necefiary ceremony; for a perfon fucceeded him, who
treated them in the fame manner. Their difgraqe did not
end here ; for when they danced, they had the mortification
to find their performance twice difapproved of, and were
obliged to repeat it. This dance did not differ much from
that of the firft women, except in this one circumftance, that
the prefent fet, fometimes raifed the body upon one leg,
by a fort of double motion, and then upftn the other alternately,
in which attitude they kept fnapping their fingers ;
and, at the end, they repeated, with great agility, thebrifk
movements, in which the former group of female dancers
had ihewn themfelves fo expert.
In a little time, a perfon entered unexpectedly, and laid
fomething in a ludicrous way, about the fireworks that had
been exhibited, which extorted a burft of laughter from the
multitude. After this, we had a dance compofed of the
men who attended, or had followed, Feenou. They formed
a double circle f t e- one within another) of twenty-four
each, round the chorus, and began a gentle foothing fong,,
with correfponding motions of the hands and head. This,
lafted a confiderable time, and then changed to a much
quicker meafure, during which they repeated fentences,
either in conjunction with the chorus, or in anfwer to fome
fpoken by that band. They then retreated to the back part
of the circle, as the women had done, and again advanced,,
on each fide, in a triple row, till they formed a femicircle,
which was done very flowly, by inclining the body on one
leg, and advancing the other a little way, as they put it
down. They accompanied this, with fuch a foft air as they
had fung at the beginning; but foon changed it to repeat
fentences in a hariher tone, at the fame time quickening the-
dance very much, till they finifhed with a general ihout
and clap of the hands. The fame was repeated feveral:
times; but, at laft, they formed a double circle, as at the
beginning, danced, and repeated very quickly, and finally
clofed with feveral very dexterous tranfpofitions of the two.
circles.
The entertainments, o f this memorable night concluded
with a dance, in which the principal people prefent exhibited..