Lehner, P. 1964 Nov. 14 - continued to shouts from the hundreds of onlookers; about 10 o'clock the dancing ceased for a few minutes and we were served coconut juice (taken from the new shoots, not the nut) in mugs - it was very refreshing at this point; hard it not been that one of the natives accidentally knocked my mug over, causing me to scramble up, much to the joy of the hordes of natives, I would have relished this particular sequence of refreshing swallows with great pleasure; there was no auction tonight and the record player blared much less of the cracked records; after our drink the dancing took on a new fervor and the became more suggestive of fertility rites, than rhythmic exercise; the high point came when I was approached by the native girl I referred to before as a "champion comedienne" - she was in fact the "Gilbertese Martha Ray" this was to be the last dance of the night so the crowd sensed the climax was about to occur; she dragged me to the center of the floor and then began to twist in energetic and erratic gyrations that had some sweating profusely to match; seeing that I was keeping up with her, she slowly turned herself around while twisting from side to side and then (over)