foaming at the mouth and with his eyes rolling, he falls in a
paroxysm upon the ground, to be carried off by his companions."
The writer adds significantly that this dancing "would seem to
emanate from a species of voluptuousness." (Mrs. French-Sheldon,
"Customs among the Natives of East Africa," _Journal of the
Anthropological Institute_, vol. xxi, May, 1892, pp. 366-67.) It
may be added that among the Suaheli dances are intimately
associated with weddings; the Suaheli dances have been minutely
described by Velten (_Sitten und Gebraüche der Suaheli_, pp.
144-175). Among the Akamba of British East Africa, also,
according to H.R. Tate (_Journal of the Anthropological
Institute_, Jan.-June, 1904, p. 137), the dances are followed by
connection between the young men and girls, approved of by the
parents.

The dances of the Faroe Islanders have been described by Raymond
Pilet ("Rapport sur une Mission en Islande et aux lies Féroë,"
_Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques_, tome vii, 1897,
p. 285). These dances, which are entirely decorous, include
poetry, music, and much mimicry, especially of battle. They
sometimes last for two consecutive days and nights. "The dance is
simply a permitted and discreet method by which the young men may
court the young girls. The islander enters the circle and places
himself beside the girl to whom he desires to show his affection;
if he meets with her approval she stays and continues to dance at
his side; if not, she leaves the circle and appears later at
another spot."

Pitre (_Usi, etc., del Popolo Siciliano_, vol. ii, p. 24, as
quoted in Marro's _Pubertà_) states that in Sicily the youth who