Lehner P. 1964 90 140 Nov. 13 - continued 7 she will dance slowly over to her chosen partner, bend down before him and make motions with her hands to follow her on to the dance floor; this is the way the greatest percentage of the dances came about; some of the crew (including myself) got itchy feet too often to sit back and wait, so we would often approach a girl and ask her on to the floor; the dances are very long - some seemed to run over ten minutes; not wanting to appear weaker than the native girls, most of us danced the limit, soaking wet with sweat and foot sore from the gravel; by this time my feet were used to exposure and tough enough that I didn't mind the gravel; there was a very short breather between each dance and then the guitars would begin again, and another native girl would wiggle out onto the floor; they seemed to show a marked preference for the same dancing partner time after time so that when a particular girl would dance onto the floor, her usual partner among the crew would mutter, "Oh no! Not again!" whether they chose the same partners because they took a liking to them or whether they wanted to see if they could wear one man out we did not learn until the next night; (over)