Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 65
English observerswere arranging their apparatus, the natives prepared apile of brushwood, and, so soon as the eclipse began,they set fire to this pile and began to shout and yellas they danced around it. Not less significant were thepopular observances generally. There was a semi-holi-day in honour… … GIANT EATERS. 45 was a general tendency to prolong the holiday a littlebeyond the exact time when the shadow disappears, andindeed to prolong it throughout the day. All earthenwarevessels used for cooking were broken, and all cooked foodin the houses at the time of the eclipse was thrown out.It is…
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