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Title: Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General U.S. Grant, ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879. To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Young, John Russell, 1841-1899
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York : The American News Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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in order, not allowing it to bun-dle up and vex the play. These maidens carried bouquets ofpink blossoms, artificially made, examples of the flora of Japan.They stepped through the dance at as slow a measure as in a minuet of LouisXIV. The move-ment of the dancewas simple, themusic a hummingthrumming, asthough the per-formers were tun-ing their instru-ments, Afterpassing through afew measures thedancers slowlyfiled out, and werefollowed by an-other group, whocame wearingmasks—the maskin the form of alarge dolls face— and bearingchildrens rattlesand fans. Thepeculiarity of thisdance was that time was kept by the movement of the fan—agraceful, expressive movement which only the Eastern peoplehave learned to bestow on the fan. With them the fan becomesalmost an organ of speech, and the eye is employed in its man-agement at the expense of the admiration we are apt at hometo bestow on other features of the amusement. The masksindicated that this was a humorous dance, and when it was
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JAPANESE MUSICIANS. AN HISTORICAL DINNER. ^gj over four special performers, who had unusual skill, came inwith flowers and danced a pantomime. Then came four others,with costumes different—blue robes trimmed with gold—whocarried long, thin wands, entwined in gold and red, from whichdangled festoons of pink blossoms. All this time the music hummed and thrummed. To varythe show we had an even more grotesque amusement. Firstcame eight children, who could scarcely do more than toddle.They were dressed in white, embroidered in green and red,wearing purple caps formed like the Phrygian liberty cap, anddangling on the shoulders. They came into the temple inclos-ure and danced on the graveled walk, while two, wearing animitation of a dragons skin, went through a dance and variouscontortions, supposed to be a dragon at play. This remindedus of the pantomime elephant, where one performer plays thefront and another the hind legs. In the case of our Japanesedragon the legs were obvious, and t

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