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Transcription
Rather like a chained elephant in Azor.
The music was weird & monotonous &
The lady waved her arms about in accompani
ment holding in either hand a long lantern
like affair striped in all the colors of the
rainbow. After she exhausted herself of a
bevy of 8 Korean maidens whirling the much
white & pale green flowing garments executed
actions to the accompaniment of a long
cylindrical drum carried by one of their number.
These women sang in high voices & faced each other in
a line as in a Virginia reel; we departed.