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bent manner, like the neck of that bird. In another dance, 

 one man imitated the movements of a kangaroo grazing in 

 the woods, while a second crawled up and pretended to spear 

 him. When both tribes mingled in the dance the ground 

 trembled with the heaviness of their steps, and the air re- 

 sounded with their wild cries. Every one appeared in high 

 spirits; and the group of nearly naked figures, viewed by the 

 light of the blazing fires, all moving in hideous harmony, 

 formed a perfect display of a festival among the lowest bar- 

 barians. In Tierra del Fuego we had beheld many curious 

 scenes in savage life, but never, I think, one where the na- 

 tives were in such high spirits and so perfectly at their ease. 

 After the dancing was over, the whole party formed a great 

 circle on the ground, and the boiled rice and sugar was dis- 

 tributed, to the delight of all. 



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