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interlocked, etc., and when sharply pressed upon toward its center can 
be made to “ jump.” 
622. Arawak and Warrau youngsters on the Pomeroon and Moruca 
have a few water games. With the boys a favorite pastime in the 
shallows is the following: 
Two corials, without occu- 
pants, are each kept at 
their ends by two young- | 
sters in a position parallel _ 
to one another and from 8 
to 10 feet apart, not at 
rest, but violently shaken 
up and down so as to make 
the intermediate stretch of 
water as artificially rough 
as possible. When this 
condition has been at- 
tained, another corial, with 
paddlers, has to pass 
through the lines without 
being upset—often a very 
difficult feat. Another ap- 
parently very enjoyable 
sport is for one child to 
dive into the water when 
another, from the bank, 
will throw in a long bush 
rope, the extremity of 
which he retains in his 
hand. The diver gropes 
about until he manages to Fic. 244,—Leaf-strand figures. A, B, Four-ply 
5 plait; C, the jumping flea. 
seize the free end between 
his teeth, by which means he is hauled to the surface. This is called 
“ playing at fishing.” Sometimes the little girls will stand in a circle 
in the water—they are supposed to be boiling the cassava in water to 
make cassiri—and one after another goes into the center and dives 
down to see if the drink is ready. Both little boys and girls will 
play at snake or crocodile by diving under water and blowing bubbles 
up to the surface as they swim along below. 
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