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gash. The stroke having been given the two players at 

 once began to dance against each other for a few seconds, 

 the flogged man during this shouting out an, the flogger 

 yau. Then the same man receives a second stroke, 

 which is sometimes, apparently according to a rapidly 

 made sign, a second serious stroke like the first, some- 

 times a merely complimentary stroke. Then follows 

 another few seconds of dancing and shouting. Then 

 the one who flogged before is now flogged in the same 

 way, either only the first or both strokes being serious 

 according as were those he had inflicled. Then the two 

 return to the body of players, in the best of humours, 

 hang up their whips, go to the paiwarie trough and 

 drink together. 



The whole business, the two lines of dancers, the 

 pairs of challengers, and the flogging, are repeated again 

 and again throughout the day and night; and, if the pai- 

 warie lasts out, throughout the next day and the next 

 night, and sometimes, I am told, yet longer. From time 

 to time all the players, men and boys alike, give and take 

 their share of blows, some, however, being more eager than 

 others for this part of the entertainment; in proportion, 

 as it seemed to me, to the skill which each attributed to 

 himself in scientifically and forcibly inflicting the cuts. 

 Watching with the greatest care, I have never de- 

 tected the slightest flinching or sign of dread of the 

 blow, nor any sign of ruffled temper. Yet I have 

 seen men, and even small boys, after twelve hours of 

 this work, with their calves so cut about, that they 

 could not put their feet to the ground without pain ; 

 and in the case of one bey, whom I took into my 

 service immediately after one of these performances, 



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