AGRICULTURE 115 



The hipak is a kind of slow polka. In none of 

 these do the dancers fall into couples. A fifth 

 dance, the dance of the departure of the spirit, is a 

 dramatic representation by three persons of the 

 death of one of them, and of his restoration to life 

 by means of the water of life (this is supposed to 

 be brought from the country which is traversed on 

 the journey to the land of shades). This dance is 

 sometimes given with so much dramatic effect as 

 to move the onlookers to tears. 



