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 white or orange-colored noses; others with white or black faces, and red or yellow noses. As they entered the area, their progress became slower. They walked six abreast, taking three measured steps, then halted.

FIJI MAJOR DRUMMER.

The first three divisions then bent forward, and when they straightened up the eighteen in the rear would bend  down, and so on, till all had gone through the bending  process. At the close of each strain of music they placed their war-clubs in a variety of positions, as our soldiers  do their guns when training; such as "shoulder,"  "carry," and "present arms." When all had entered