328 DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION. 
was one of the best representations I have seen 
in Radack, I will describe it, in the hope that _ 
my readers also will not be uninterested in it. 
~The number of the dramatis persone was 
twenty-six, thirteen men and thirteen women, 
who seated themselves in the following order 
on a spot of smooth turf. Ten men sat in a 
semicircle, and opposite to them ten women in 
a semicircle also, so that by uniting the points, 
an entire circle would have been formed, but 
a space of about six feet was left at both ends, 
in each of which sat an old woman provided 
with a drum. This drum, made of the hol- 
low trunk of a tree, is about three feet long, 
six Inches in diameter at each end, narrowed 
like an hour-glass, to half that thickness in 
the middle. Both ends are covered with the 
skin of the shark: it is held under the arm, 
and struck with the palm of the hand. In 
the middle of the circle, old Langediu took 
his station with a handsome young woman, 
sitting back to back. The whole party were 
elegantly adorned about the head, and the 
females about the body also, with garlands of 
