Lehner, P* 
1964 
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Nov* lo - continued 6 
and then the leader would say sometning indicating 
vino would start singing the next "verse", that 
nerson would begin, they would start swaying 
againrand the clack cs. sticvs hitting in o..»yt im 
could be heard:' another dance they performed 
W as bv two- couples, .facing each otter as j.' 
, 4 .' ■ _-i r , a o - th^ r then berr^n sxn^n.n rr 
about to T>xoy ca; as * , , ,, _ * 
and clapping hands, their own and eacn other s, 
jn suc -h a ran dr seouence that it was hare to 
discern whose hands were slaving whose amid 
t hP blur * of movement: after they had' finished 
sin-inf' and dancing we were asked to sdng for 
them: our attempt was no better nere uoan on 
Makdn, but they seemed to enjoy our noor attempt 
anyway - George knew the first three words o, 
m anv songs and would begin them, the rest o, 
us doinin- in to heir him out and then he would 
emit leaving us to sing the rest of the song 
-ft was great fun, but was a noor display of 
American talent; at 11:20 P.M % a gong sounded 
(an old gas cylinder) and the cnildi en le 
ro home - the curfew was un doubt ably lai.er 
tonight than usual: shortly thereafter the 
Magistrate made a speech saying that he was 
not prepared to entertain us but bad done the 
i^oct he could: Binion expressed our thanks and 
the natives left us t> our slumber; all evening 
the cool ocean air had been blowing in on us 
making it slightly uncomfortable and now we 
we re faced with sleeping .in it: the room m 
which the party had taken place had walls only 
waif wav to the ceiling while the back nr on 
had full walls, so Binion; Ken and myself took 
a mat back there and joined Roger, while Bare, 
George and Jim remained in tie front room: u 
d^a. not take long before we had either nol-^e ■ 
up in a mat or burrowed under oner the night 
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