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...plenty of leisure and this is often employed such games and training as well prepares men for the war and the hunt. These are conducted by skilled teachers, and altho something similar exists in other islands of the Insulinde it is said that there is a distinct difference in methods employed. Their suppleness, agility, and skill is amazing. With backs bent at a right angle, hands and arms outstretched, the speed with long gliding steps like a deer, they twist & turn, lift their bodies, gyrate by up and down and to right and left with such fighting rapidity [illegible] - faces meanwhile hung absolutely expressionless. Then there kicking bouts, something like wrestling matches but the feet are used instead of the hands.

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