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he relates with enthusiasm, the adventures of his youth,-- the exploits which characterised his movements in the field of battle, and the hair-breadth escapes through which he passed; he also boasts of stealing. He makes a great many grotesque motions and contortions;-- slaps his hands together, and raises them alternately,-- one above the other,-- all the while turning and twisting, and bowing ludicrously.-- The motions and gestures of the leader are repeated by his followers; and sometimes they are simultaneous with his,-- for by much practice they are enabled to anticipate him. Any person can commence or leave off dancing, at pleasure. Frequently, a large concourse of people are engaged at the same time. Towards the close of the dance they interlock hands, and represent the figure of a serpent in its coil; and often, the whim of the leader, causes him to make almost as many turnings and windings, and excentric evolutions, as are laid down in a figure of the walls of Troy. As the line of dancers is considerable in length, his [the leader's] sudden retrograde movements never fail in producing confusion, and the dance ends precipitately, with bursts