Section 76. A FUNERAL DANCE[1].
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Section 76. A FUNERAL DANCE[1].
Drums were beating[2], horns blowing[3], and[4] people were seen all running in one direction. The cause was a funeral dance. I joined[5] the crowd, and soon found myself in[6] the midst of the entertainment[7]. The dancers were most (höchst) grotesquely[8] got up[9]. About a dozen huge ostrich feathers adorned their helmets. Leopard or black and white monkey-skins[10] were suspended[11] from their shoulders, and a leather, tied (S. 7, N. 3, A) round the waist, covered a large iron bell which was strapped[12] upon the loins of each dancer; this they rang[13] to the time of the dance. A large crowd got up in[14] this style[15] created[16] an indescribable hubbub, heightened[17] by the blowing of[18] horns and the beating of seven nogaras[19] of various notes[20]. Every dancer wore[21] an antelope’s horn[22] suspended round the neck, which he blew occasionally in[23] the height of his excitement.—Sir S. Baker, the Albert N’yanza.