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DANCE OF THE NATIVES. 
[1820. 
one they are afraid to show kindness to any, lest 
it should excite jealousy in the others. 
The natives danced for about an hour in the 
afternoon, near the waggons, and also from 
sunset to ten at night, attended with great noise, 
made chiefly by the women. They danced in a 
confused mass, often elevating both arms above 
their heads, retiring from and returning to the 
mass in a formal, stiff, yet in somewhat of a 
dancing posture. They all appeared to enjoy it. 
Happily they grew tired by ten o'clock, when 
they dispersed to their different homes with tu- 
multuous noise. Having continued writing in 
my waggon till about two o'clock in the morning, 
I went out and found all our Matchappee com- 
panions awake and sitting round a fire, busy in 
conversation, while all our Hottentots were fast 
asleep. 
