NORTHERN OCEAN. 
than a frequent repetition of the words hee, hee, 
hee, ho, ho, ho, &c. which, by a more or lefS 
frequent repetition, dwelling longer on one word 
and fhorter on another, and raifing and lowering 
the voice, produce fomething like a tune, and 
has the defired effect. This is always accompani- 
ed by a drum or tabor; and fometimes a kind of 
rattle is added, made with a piece of dried buffa- 
lo fkin, in fhape exactly like an oil-flafk, into 
which they put a few fhot or pebbles, which, 
when fhook about, produces mufic little inferior 
tothe drum, though not fo loud. 
_ This mode of dancing naked is performed on- 
ly by the men; for when the women are order- 
ed to dance, they always exhibit without the 
tent, to mufic which is played within it; and 
though their method of dancing is perfectly de- 
cent, yet it has ftill lefs meaning and a¢tion than 
that of the men: fora whole heap of them crowd 
together in a ftraight line, and juft fhuffle them- 
felves a little from right to left, and back again 
in the fame line, without lifting their feet from 
the ground; and when the mufic ftops, they all 
give a little bend of the body and knee, fomewhat 
dike an awkward curtfy, and pronounce, in a lit- 
_ tle fhrill tone, h-e-e, h-o-0-0-e. 
- Befide thefe diverfions, they have another fim- 
f ple in-door game, which is that of taking a bit 
of wood, a button, or any other {mall thing, and 
_ after fhifting it from hand to hand feveral times, 
alking 
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