in front of her lover, contorting herself as though in a
passionate embrace, and, on passing her hand between her thighs,
showing it covered with the moisture of amorous enjoyment."
(_Journal_, vol. ix, p. 79.) The dance here referred to is
probably the Bamboula dance of the Wolofs, a spring festival
which has been described by Pierre Loti in his _Roman d'un
Spahi_, and concerning which various details are furnished by a
French army-surgeon, acquainted with Senegal, in his _Untrodden
Fields of Anthropology_. The dance, as described by the latter,
takes place at night during full moon, the dancers, male and
female, beginning timidly, but, as the beat of the tam-tams and
the encouraging cries of the spectators become louder, the dance
becomes more furious. The native name of the dance is _anamalis
fobil_, "the dance of the treading drake." "The dancer in his
movements imitates the copulation of the great Indian duck. This
drake has a member of a corkscrew shape, and a peculiar movement
is required to introduce it into the duck. The woman tucks up her
clothes and convulsively agitates the lower part of her body; she
alternately shows her partner her vulva and hides it from him by
a regular movement, backward and forward, of the body."
(_Untrodden Fields of Anthropology_, Paris, 1898, vol. ii, p.
112.)

Among the Gurus of the Ivory Coast (Gulf of Guinea), Eysséric
observes, dancing is usually carried on at night and more
especially by the men, and on certain occasions women must not
appear, for if they assisted at fetichistic dances "they would
die." Under other circumstances men and women dance together with
ardor, not forming couples but often _vis-à-vis_: their movements
are lascivious. Even the dances following a funeral tend to