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body upon one leg, by a sort of double motion, and 

 then upon the other alternately, in which attitude 

 they kept snapping their fingers; and, at the end, 

 they repeated, with great agility, the brisk move- 

 ments, in which the former group of female dancers 

 had shown themselves so expert. 



In a little time, a person entered unexpectedly, 

 and said something in a ludicrous way, about the 

 fireworks that had been exhibited, which extorted a 

 burst of laughter from the multitude. After this, 

 we had a dance composed of the men who attended 

 or had followed Feenou. They formed a double 

 circle (i, e. one within another) of twenty-four each, 

 round the chorus, and began a gentle soothing song, 

 with corresponding motions of the hands and head. 

 This lasted a considerable time, and then changed to 

 a much quicker measure, during which they repeated 

 sentences, either in conjunction with the chorus, or 

 in answer to some spoken by that band. They then 

 retreated to the back part of the circle, as the women 

 had done, and again advanced, on each side, in a 

 triple row, till they formed a semicircle, which was 

 done very slowly, by inclining the body on one leg, 

 and advancing the other a little way, as they put it 

 down. They accompanied this, with such a soft air 

 as they had sung at the beginning ; but soon changed 

 it to repeat sentences in a harsher tone, at the same 

 time quickening the dance very much, till they 

 finished with a general shout and clap of the hands. 

 The same was repeated several times ; but, at last, 

 they formed a double circle, as at the beginning, 

 danced, and repeated very quickly, and finally closed 

 with several very dexterous transpositions of the two 

 circles. 



The entertainments of this memorable night con- 

 cluded with a dance, in which the principal people 

 present exhibited. It resembled the immediately 

 preceding one, in some respects, having the same 

 number of performers, who began nearly in the same 



