Note 431 — Chapter XIX · ART AND WAR
Reading edition
Mann in Trans. Ethn. Soc. N. S. v. p. 295 (Kaffirs); Livingstone, Miss. Travels, pp. 198, 199 (Makololo dance demonstration as a preparation to an intended fight); Schoolcraft, Information, iv. p. 62 (Dacotas dance when they come in the neighbourhood of the enemy’s country); Schomburgk, Guiana, ii. (Macusis); Cook, (1st) Voyage, pp. 467, 468, and Angas, Savage Life, i. pp. 328, 329 (Maoris); Cahusac, La danse, i. p. 108, on the ancient Ethiopians, quoting Lukianos.
Ethnological literature affords numberless descriptions of dances performed as an exercise to battle. As in the present connection we have only to deal with means of stimulation, which immediately precede the real action, all these instances are not to the point.