Note 423 — Chapter XIX · ART AND WAR
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On ensemble and exact time in dancing cf. Cook, (1st) Voyage, pp. 206-208 (Tahiti); (3rd) Voyage, i. p. 188 (Wateoo), pp. 247, 248, 255 (Hapaee); Ellis, Pol. Res. i. p. 215; Marques in Boletim, etc., viii. p. 59 (Samoa); Reeves, Brown Men and Women, p. 158 (Samoa); Williams, Fiji, p. 142; Kleinschmidt in Journ. d. Mus. Godeffroy, xiv. p. 268 (Fiji); Lütke, Voyage, i. p. 383 (Ualan. Caroline Islands); Tetens and Kubary in Journ. d. Mus. Godeffroy, ii. p. 23 (Yap, Caroline Islands); Hernsheim, Sudsee-Erinnerungen, p. 34 (Yap).
The same virtues have also been admired in Australian dancing. See e.g. Fraser, Aborigines of N.S. Wales, p. 66; Smyth, Victoria, i. p. 168; ii. p. 294; Woods, Native Tribes, pp. xxxii., xxxiii., 272. Cf. also Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 254, 255 (Oráons); Lewin, Wild Races, p. 227 (Kumis); p. 313 (Shendoos).