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remarked this among other coincidences, we have 
recalled to mind the time when the Israelites also held 
their “ new moon feasts and solemn festivals/' The 
Krus are passionately fond of dancing, but we cannot 
say much for their performances. They generally 
represent some hunting scene; one personating the 
animal, while the others with their bodies bent and the 
hands resting on the thighs, jump about in a very 
uncouth manner, looking as if they were trying to 
escape the notice of the chief performer. Sometimes 
on board ship they go through a rude but amusing 
figure, each person holding a capstan bar or some other 
large piece of wood, with which they strike the deck^ 
accompanying the performance with a grunt. Al- 
though we cannot praise their dancing, wc must admit 
their mimicry to be admirable, and they even accom- 
plish extempore plays, in which various characters are 
imitated in a very diverting manner. 
Friday^ Apnl 22nd. - -In pursuance of Captain 
Allen's determination to keep moving about as much 
as possible, in order to preserve the health of the crews 
by change of air and scene, while waiting for orders 
from England, we sailed tliis day from Clarence Cove 
to the opposite coast, where a twin mountain faces the 
noble peak of Fernando Po. 
“ Like cliffs that had been rent asunder ; 
A dreary sea now flows between.” 
The shallowness of the strait separating these two 
remarkable elevations would tend to prove either that 
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