^65 TRAVELSIN 
and fo devoid of grace and hilarity, that, were 
it not for the extreme gaiety of the women, it 
might be called the dance of the dead. 
Thefe tortoifes, to whom dancing is a 
fatigue, £how little eagernefs for ^ny thing 
but wagers, games of calculation and chance^ 
and all the fedentary amufements which re- 
quire patience and reiledlon, of which they 
are more capable than they are of motion. 
One of their favourite games is what they 
call the tiger and the lambs. It is nearly as 
follows : 1 fay nearly, for I never underftood 
it fufficientiy to be able clearly to explain it. 
An oblong fquare is traced on the ground, 
in which are made a certain number of holes^ 
two or three inches deep, forming a fort of 
chefs-table. The holes are made i;i ranksj 
fide by fide, but the number is not fixed. I 
have feen them varying from twenty to forty* 
To piay, they take a certain number of 
pieces of fheep's-dung, hardened by drying, 
proportionate to the number of holes, and which 
reprefent lambs. Some of the holes alfo ar^ 
called lambs, and into thefe are pUt balls. The 
holes that remain empty, are called tigers* 
Perhaps they reprefent only different dens of 
the 
