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guard over them waddy in hand ready
to give any restless lady a tap on
the head as a hint to keep still -
apparently for the benefit of the women
a troop of blacks
all in their war paint came boundin
into the arena and gave out that the
boy candidates could not be found -
They went in search of them and later
came back successful, with the boys
in their midst they then sprang on the fire
and dividing the boys up kept jumping
up and down amidst smoke and dust & ashes
until the fire was quite trampled out -
Then the coverings were removed from
the women who appeared covered with
sweat - Then each of the poombits knelt
before his mother - or failing her - his nearest
female relative and went through the
form of taking nourishment from her
breast. Thus the putting away
once for all of childish things -
That so far as I can recall
finished the ceremony -