One such person is now called Turlo, whose office it will later be to carry out the circumcision. This time six of them were hunted one after the other in this way, one for each of the five boys and one extra, perhaps as a reserve in case of inaction of one of their number.

As the last one was lying down, they began to raise the first one up again, one after the other, by one of them taking them by the head and something being said to them with great speed and in a bickering song by the one alone and soon afterwards by the people around who were pushing close, in which finally the person being raised up himself joined in with apparently great anger and eagerness, but when he was up, he and everyone used to laugh about it.

Now 11 - 19 mostly young men formed a regular line, in which the front man carried a staff, walked in circles twice around the entire camp and then, led by a new leader, to whom the previous leader had given his staff from behind, stood up about 50 paces outside the circle they had described.

( 207 ) From here, two of their number gradually brought in so many men from the spectators that there were thirty of them, the last two stationed a short distance away from them, one towards the east, the other towards the west.

After the glass had been beaten into shape for trimming (they now use old bottles and the like instead of the rock crystal they had previously used) and brought to the Turlos, who were still sitting in the same place, the whole crowd formed a line again, the beards, and those who did not have such a long beard, took a piece of the kangaroo skin between their teeth and began to stamp and growl with grim gestures to such an extent that they heard that would have been frightening.

Two Englishmen, who were just in front of the slowly advancing units, actually left. The impression of this procession is impossible to describe, but if you consider what kind of noise there must be when 30 tree-strong natives stamp on the ground with all their might and in an instant and the roughest sounds come out of their throats with all their fury, then you will hardly suspect me of exaggeration if I call it horrible and are not surprised that the boys, who were uncovered during a short pause ( 208 ) and were lined up, trembling and trembling in fear as the angry mob slowly came at them.

Arriving close in front of those to be circumcised, the person in front stuck his staff into the ground and then lay down on his knees, as did the