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all dressed in white even to having a white headdress something on the style of the red cross nurses.  Diagonally across their bodies hung a row of beads, from one shoulder to the opposite hip.
The drummers were on the outside of this circle.  They used the ordinary type of drum which consists of a long hollow log which is covered at one end by the skin stretched taut, and the other end is narrowed [[insertion]] tapered [[/insertion]] down to a hole about 3 inches in diameter.  This end is not covered.  They beat a rhythm something like the usual dance ones - an uneven 5/8 time.  Someone would start a refrain of a song and the rest of the crowd of on lookers would take up a chorus.  The song was something on the type of a spiritual but not as melodious.  However it was not melancholy or sad.
Out in the dark, or semi darkness where we were standing, several young girls and and old woman or two were keeping time with their

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bodies in a kind of rumba.  That was the kind of dance usually danced.  It was interesting to watch from the standpoint of folk dancing.  The children were the best as their joints and muscles were so loose - and how they could shake!  Their bodies kept time to the beats of the drums, not to the singing.
We didn't stay very long watching this as we were out looking for the other type of dance.  We didn't have any luck tho' so we came back to the hotel.

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This morning we woke up ready to go on an expedition into the hills behind Petionville, but it rained early.  However about 10 o'clock Mr. Barnes came down ready to go, so, as it had cleared, we decided to risk it.  Our party consisted of the same group as the night before.  We drove up the Petionville Kenscoff road to a point about 3 miles from Petionville then we got out and began our hike up