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sight of, the place of the feast, does the whole party 

 move forward together to the feast. When we arrived 

 at Araiwaparoo, and for some hours afterwards, the 

 mysterious parasheera were thus gathering, unseen but 

 most certainly heard, and apparently not to be talked of, 

 in our neighbourhood. I confess to have myself gradually 

 felt eager and ever increasing excitement ; but this feel- 

 ing was obviously developed to a much greater degree 

 in the Indians of the settlement and in my own Indian 

 followers. 



At last, just before four o'clock, the excitement 

 reached its highest pitch, and seemed to pass into a new 

 phase. The men and boys of the settlement rushed 

 into retirement in one of the houses ; whence they pre- 

 sently issued fantastically painted with the finest white 

 clay. The headman had a broad band of this pigment 

 entirely across his face so as to cover both eyes, and 

 meet the ears on either side ; he looked exactly as 

 though blindfolded with a white handkerchief. The 

 same man had also various bands of the same white 

 substance round his body and legs. Each of his party 

 was also painted, each differently, with this same sub- 

 stance. Otherwise they had no ornament, and no cloth- 

 ing beyond the ordinary narrow band of dark blue cloth 

 passed between their legs and tailing, apron-like, in front 

 and behind. Each had a whistle formed of one, two, or 

 three very slender pieces of bamboo, arranged, when 

 their was more than one of these, like pan-pipes. This 

 instrument is called kimiti, and from this instrument the 

 whole of the party is also called kimiti. Those who amuse 

 themselves with far-fetched fancied points of analogy 

 between different languages may be especially interested 



