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is continued as long as the whim of the old man prompts him to sing. After resting half an hour, or an hour, the singing is commenced again, by the same, or another old man, and the dancers again enter the lists.

If all other Indian tribes dance like the Cherokees, some writers have greatly misrepresented them. There is no variety in the movement of their feet; stamping with one or both feet at a time, in rapid succession; and, when stationary, jumping up and alighting on both feet in the same quick manner, constitute their only steps in dancing. The night is generally wound up with a common dance;-- and the same coil habits are indulged.

Beaver Dance.

This ceremony originated in the celebration of a Beaver hunt, and it is said the skin of that animal was, in former times, exclusively used at the dance. But at the present day, owing, I suppose, to the scarcity of Beavers, the Cherokees