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We faw them dance, and heard them fing. 

 In dancing they fcarcely moved their feet, 

 but threw about their arms, and twifted and 

 writhed their bodies into a multitude of dif- 

 gufting and indecent attitudes. Their long 

 was a wild and favage yell, devoid of all 

 foftnefs and harmony, and loudly chanted 

 in harfli monotony. 



Their food is chiefly rice, which they 

 prepare by plain and fimple boiling. At 

 the time of meffing they fquat round the 

 bowl in large bodies, upon their heels and 

 haunches, like monkies, each putting his 

 paws into the platter to claw out the rice with 

 his fingers. We faw feveral of them em* 

 ployed in beating the red hulks off the rice, 

 which was done by pounding the grain in 

 wooden mortars, with wooden peftles, fuf- 

 ficiently long to allow them to ftand upright 

 while beating in mortars placed at their feet. 

 This appeared to be a labour of cheerfulnefs. 

 They beat the peftle in tune to the fong; 

 and feemed happy ; yet nothing of in* 

 duftry marked their toil, for the pounding 

 was performed by, indolently, raifing the 



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