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All were unusually exhausted afterwards and took a long while coming to. The old woman who had led the dancing procured two krisses and leaped fanatically about, her mouth wide open, an ecstatic expression, on her face. She seemed to hear the remarks of another old woman who remonstrated with her, but she was enjoying her escape fio6 reality too much to come back so soon, and it took the Barong's beard and the prayers of the pemangkoe to pacify her. 'Men she quickly became sober and joined in the normal prayers.

This was one of the most moving and antique shows I have seen in Bali. Of unusual splendour, it was to celebrate the opening and dedication of the new gateway, which is immensely tall and tapering, built of a pale coral brick. At 3.30, when we arrived, there was already a great crowd outside, and the cockfight was still in full swing. An endless procession of holy images moved down the steep steps of the gateway and across the courtyard to their place on a high long altar-like table, or small separate shrine by flags and the slender banners shrine, each under its own umbrella, and accompanied called oembel-oembels. There were gilded women's faces, white cows, winged dragons, deer, a Naga gay and twisty, with a glittering red tongue. Some wore the high golden Rama head-dress; all had. round their neck a colored silk sash, and flowers stuck jauntily behind their ears.

More and more gods streamed in; old and young women, men and boys, carrying lances with dangling peacock feathers. Rows of women, in gay sarongs, emerald green with yellow sashes and flowers on their heads, knelt before the high table and the various shrines, waiting to be sprinkled with holy water. They prayed with beautiful gestures, each with a flower between her fingers-hundreds of brown shoulders and gleaming black heads, studded with flowers. The pattern of the crowd was continually and imperceptibly changing as they moved from shrine to shrine. The mass of people was unusually splendid because the poenggawa had given orders that every one must come in Balinese dress, and all the men and boys belonging to Kesiman and its bandjars (wards) had naked torsos.

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