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the scars lasted for many months. I may add that the 

 two challengers are in all cases suitably matched, boys 

 challenging boys, and men challenging opponents worthy 

 of their lash. 



But the performance so far described is occasionally 

 slightly varied, and it is in this second form that 

 the women take part. It seems a milder, perhaps a later, 

 form of the genuine whip game; and it seems itself 

 to admit of a good deal of variation. The women who take 

 part in it arc armtd, not with whips, but each either with 

 the long shak-shak or rattle, which has already been des- 

 cribed, or with the wooden figure of a heron. The leader 

 of the men also has one of these wooden birds in place 

 of his more usual whip. Two lines are formed, the men 

 and women standing indiscriminately, facing each other. 

 These two lines make the usual series of advances and 

 retreats to and from each other, those players who have 

 whips shaking these, those who have rattles shaking these, 

 by hitting the stick part of them at regular intervals 

 with their disengaged hands; and those who have 

 honores shake these at each other. Then a pause is 

 called, the players, men and women alike, put forward 

 their calves and each receives, either with whip or hon- 

 ore, a quite gentle tap, a complimentary stroke as I have 

 called it elsewhere. Sometimes too, the players, instead 

 of dancing opposite to each other in two opposing lines 

 within the house, vary the proceedings by marching 

 round and round the house in double-hied procession, 

 stopping from time to time to give and take the compli- 

 mentary strokes. Then follows the usual paiwarie 

 drinking. 



A curious dance in which the macquari whips are also 



