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Show length will is manufactured of a strong grata fiber native to the district, bound around spirally with a strip of thin cane. In the hands of a muscnlnr Waran it is capablo of iufiicthiK wound very little less severe than that which would be produced by the downward blow of 1 kmfo. When the dance is about to commence , the ierf orincrs range themselves opposito one another, waving tlieir whijw in the ' air and giving utterance to cries resem-j resem-j bliuK the notes of birds. Suddenly one 1 of them stops, and oic.in himself oil 0110 lej? stretches out the other, remaining remain-ing perfectly motionless. The other stops, too, measures the distance carefully care-fully with his eye, springs hUdi in the ! air 10 give force to the blow, and, wish! ! down comes the heavy whip with a ! fearful smack upon his opponent's out-j out-j stretched limb, i;nd a red j,nsh marks 1 Where the keen thong has curled round ' his calf or ankle. 1 The recipient of the blow nt ters never ; a sound, but, Midline; as cheerfnlly as ; possible under the circumstances, again j takes up the dance until it is the turn of i the other player to stand still and re- ceivo his punishment, which, we may j depend upon it, i. usually returned with ; as good a will as it was given. S;ui Francisco Examiner. TUe Whip JJane.o. Indians lrtvjuently, after engaging in ' tho whip dance, vow that they will never ; more submit to the ordeal, and mutually j h: sure each other that their skins have i been made to suffer for the last time, t Lut uti imristible longing soon seizes I tl'.otn to again realize the fearful joy of j imhih;in;j; in Hie "sport," and the result - i.i that tho dance continues us fashion- j aide as ever. rho young men of the ' trilio tlit.ii. bavins put on all the finery . thev aro able to u.iater, artn themsflvcs with tho terrible tnaipiarri a iieculiar ' whip from which tho dance derives hi Siune, This whip is about five tot ia I |