to that people : but of thefe I mud referve the particular 

 account to another occafion, and for the prefent only give 

 a Ihort defcriptinn of the Loango d.Tncing, as performed 

 by the Loango negroe??, male and frmale, and not by 

 any others ; which confitts from firft to laft in fuch a fcene 

 of wanton and lafcivious geftures, as nothing but a heated 

 imagination and a conftant pra6tice could enable them to 

 perform. Thefe dances, which are performed to the 

 found of a drum, to which they ftrike time by clapping 

 of hands, may properly be confidered as a kind of play 

 or pantomime divided into fo many a<Sts, which lafts for 

 fome hours. But the moft remarkable is, that during this 

 leprefentation, the adtors, inftead of being fatigued, be- 

 come more and more enlivened and animated, till they are 

 bathed in fweat like poft-horfes, and their paflions wound 

 up to fuch a degree, that nature being overcome, they 

 are ready to drop into convuhlons,. 



However indelicate the above exhibitions may be, 

 fafhion has rendered them no more difgufting than any 

 other diverfions to the European and Creole ladies, who 

 in company with the gentlemen croud about them 

 without the leaft referve, to enjoy what they call a hearty 

 laugh ; while fuch fcenes would change an Englilh wo-? 

 inan's face from white to fcarlet. 



That cuftom and habit give a fandion, and render fa- 

 miliarj in fome countries, many things which would be 

 confidered as prepofterous in others, is an obfervation, 

 whicli is more or lefs verified, in proportion to the variety 

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