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142 You have lasted the palm-wine As well as hemp-juice. You are drunk with the palm-wine As well as hemp-juice. You are fairly delirious! And utterly distracted! Bending your body And leaping like a roe-buck, Jumping like prawn-fry, You are thoroughly overcome! Leap now your loftiest, And bound like the sambhur Sway from this side to that, Oscillate to and fro, Bowing to the left hand, To the right hand bowing."

At the end of the performance an incantation was chaunted, in order to cause the spirits to return to the place whence they came out:

Of the Dancing-Spoon of the Malays we are told in Primitive Culture, ii., 152: "Mr. Darwin saw two