 | England - 1839 - 894 pages
...gives great effect ; for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right, and the third to the left again, and so on until the action acquires due intensity, when they all simultaneously and suddenly stop. The excitement which this dance produces in the savage is... | |
 | England - 1839 - 876 pages
...gives great effect ; for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right, and the third to the left again, and so on until the action acquires due intensity, when they all simultaneously and suddenly stop. The excitement which this dance produces in the savage is... | |
 | William Pridden - Australia - 1843 - 406 pages
...however, is sometimes doubled or tripled, according to numbers ; and thus great effect is added ; for when the front line jumps to the left, the second jumps...third to the left again, and so on, until the action gains due intensity, when all suddenly stop at the same moment. The excitement which this dance produces... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Aboriginal Australians - 1861 - 500 pages
...doubled, or tripled, according to space and numbers ; and this gives great effect, for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right,...in the savage is very remarkable. However listless tie individual, lying half asleep, perhaps, as they usually are when not intent on game, set him to... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Aboriginal Australians - 1861 - 500 pages
...doubled, or tripled, according to space and numbers ; and this gives great effect, for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right,...simultaneously and suddenly stop. The excitement which this fiance produces in the savage is very remarkable. However listless the individual, lying half asleep,... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...doubled or tripled according to space and numbers, and this gives great effect ; for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right,...third to the left again, and so on until the action requires due intensity, when all simultaneously and suddenly stop." * In describing a corrobboree performed... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...doubled or tripled according to space and numbers, and this gives great effect ; for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right,...third to the left again, and so on until the action requires due intensity, when all simultaneously and suddenly stop." * In describing a corrobboree performed... | |
 | Henry Cornish - Australia - 1879 - 398 pages
...doubled or tripled according to space and numbers, and this gives great effect, for when the first line jumps to the left, the second jumps to the right,...intensity, when all simultaneously and suddenly stop." Mr. Smyth says that the natives furnish in these dances, the oldest form of the drama now extant, examples... | |
 | John Henniker Heaton - Australasia - 1879 - 606 pages
...numbers, and this gives great effect, for when the first line jumps to the left the second jumps to ¡hi" right, the third to the left again, and so on until...stop. The excitement which this dance produces in the ravage ¡3 really remarkable ; however listless the individual, lying half asleep perhaps, as he usually... | |
 | George Collins Levey - Australasia - 1892 - 476 pages
...gives great effect ; for when the first line jumps to the left the second jumps to the right,- and the third to the left again, and so on until the action...this dance produces in the savage is very remarkable, and there can be little doubt that the Corrobboree is the medium through which the delights of the... | |
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... other warlike weapons. The jump now keeps time with each beat, and at each leap the dancer takes six inches to one side, all being in a connected line, led by the first dancer. The line is doubled, or tripled, according to space and numbers ; and... 