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mouth Into an obliquely flanting direction by a kind of fudden 



convulfive motion of the lips, and cuflom only has made the fight 



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of fo unnatural and ofFenfive a grimace a performance which pleafes 

 and merits applaufe. This diflortion is called ootoo-rha (large lips). 

 There are other dances ufual in their nodurnal feftivals with the 



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Arreeoys, which, none of our fliips company had an opportunity of 

 £t€ingy and are according to the accounts of the natives extremely 

 indecent and lafcivious ^ thefe are called feai-jnorodeCf and the 

 Women exhibiting them, Too*-aha^ The exercife of the common 

 dramatic dances is very violent, the motion of the hands elegant, 



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tliat of the feet not to be feen, that of the hips fomewhat ftrange, 

 and according to our notions indelicate ;. and laftly, that of the 

 mouth horrid and difagreeable. The women when performing 



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Were always attended by a man, who accompanied the drum^ with 

 a kind of fong ; and by fomc loud fpoken words or the clapping of 

 hands, direded their motions ^ which> in my opinion feems to 

 intimate that they have a kind of plan in their dan^es^ and that the 

 tranfitions from the bblique fteps^ to th^ motion of the fingers 

 and agitation of the hips, is in fome meafufe eonnedled v/ith the 

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Their music is by no means fo perfed Or 



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Hances or poetry : this branch of the polite arts haviilg made but 



an indifferent progrefs among them. 



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