file along one side of the village enclosure, and half of them walk round the other end (which I will call the “far end”) in front of the emone there (which also will be either the true one or the other one), and back again along the other side, until there are two rows of them, vis-a-vis at opposite sides of the enclosure, none of them remaining at the far end in front of the emone there.  If they are very numerous, there may be lines on both sides of the enclosure, stretching from end to end; whereas if they are few only, they would be in facing lines at the far end only of the enclosure.  This is all done silently.

Third:  All the women hosts, fully ornamented for a feast, but without special dancing ornaments, then enter the enclosure at the entrance end, and congregate at the far end of it, in front of the far emone and between the two facing lines of women guests, and facing towards the centre of the enclosure.  The group of them stretches as far forward towards the centre of the enclosure as their number allows; but it will never extend beyond the special trees, which have been last erected in the centre.  This also is done in silence.

Fourth:  The two women guests excluded from the general entry now come in.  They are presumably the wives of chiefs.  They are also decorated for the feast, but without full dancing ornaments.  Each of them, however, holds in her mouth something intended to give her a terrible appearance, probably two pairs of pigs’ tusks, one pair curling, crescent-like, upwards, and the other pair similarly curling downwards, or a piece of cloth; but this is only carried by her for this particular scene of the performance, and not afterwards.  Each of them also carries two spears, one in each hand.  These two women rush into the village enclosure, one entering at each side of the emone at the entrance end.  They run along the two sides of the enclosure, one at each side, in front of the lines of women guests already there (between them and the central group of host women), brandishing their spears as they do so, but in silence.  When they reach the far end of the enclosure they meet each other in front of the emone there; and then, if that happens to be the true (chief’s) emone, they brandish their spears in a hostile manner at the building, the spears sometimes even striking it, though they do not leave the women’s hands, and there is probably a little pause or halt in their running for the purpose of this attack.  They then pass each other, and return as they had come, still brandishing their spears, but each on the opposite side, until they are both at the entrance end of the enclosure.  If the emone at this end is the true emone, then the attack is made upon it, instead of upon the other one.  They then generally again pass each other, and go round the enclosure a second time, and again attack the emone exactly as before.  During the first part of this performance the host