the agility of a deer. Each holds in her fingers the steel castanets, and they pose and begin a rapid, regular movement of their bodies, swaying, settling gradually by projecting their knee joints forward, rising suddenly to a perfect upright, then advancing and retreating, and whirling as in the untimed waltz. In these movements, which to me were full of wild, original fascination, there is little that is indelicate though much that is poetical. It depends altogether upon the nature of the observer whether or not this dance is to be considered grossly immoral. There is no display of the limb or body, unless you happen to drift among the lowest classes of the dancing girls. Leech, who wrote a book upon Egypt, called "The Sentimental Idler," thus truthfully alludes to the dancing girls:

"If it be not the most immoral exhibition in the world I will only add, it is one of the sights of Upper Egypt; that its interest is warranted by its great antiquity, and furthermore that there is scarcely a layman or clergyman who makes the Nile voyage who does not witness the exhibitions."

When full of arraki, and worked up to a high degree of excitement, the girls sometimes become. enthusiastic, and perform as ladies should not. At Kennah they would frequently indulge in affectionate attitudes, and assume positions susceptible