CHAP. XVIT. 
PUBLIC SHEWS— MESSENGERS RETURN WITHOUT THE 
KING— FURTHER ACCOUNTS OF DR. COWEN'S MURDER. 
June 27, 1813. 
About eight o'clock in the morning there was a 
procession of the women and girls, attended with 
much noisy singing and dancing, carrying poles 
mounted with ostrich feathers. During the forenoon 
all was quiet, so that our worship proceeded without 
molestation. About forty of the men sat round us 
very quietly during the whole time. 
At two o'clock all was confusion around us. The 
women brought the girls, most fantastically dressed, 
and when a circle was formed, about four and twenty 
women, daubed with white spots of paint, in imitation 
of leopards, entered and danced for some time. Next 
entered a woman dressed entirely in straw, so that 
nothing but her hands were visible. She had much 
the appearance of a bear walking on his hind legs. 
There was much shouting, laughing, and clapping of 
