Part 56

+ja, darin aufzugehen.+

as if ... was, +als wäre+; a man’s eye = the eye of a man.

as if it had, +als hätte es+.

a personality of its own = a self-dependent personality.

as if it was, +als wäre es+.

Section 76.

A FUNERAL DANCE.

Drums were beating, horns blowing, and people were seen all running in one direction. The cause was a funeral dance. I joined the crowd, and soon found myself in the midst of the entertainment. The dancers were most (+höchst+) grotesquely got up. About a dozen huge ostrich feathers adorned their helmets. Leopard or black and white monkey-skins were suspended from their shoulders, and a leather, tied (S. 7, N. 3, A) round the waist, covered a large iron bell which was strapped upon the loins of each dancer; this they rang to the time of the dance. A large crowd got up in this style created an indescribable hubbub, heightened by the blowing of horns and the beating of seven nogaras of various notes. Every dancer wore an antelope’s horn suspended round the neck, which he blew occasionally in the height of his excitement.—SIR S. BAKER, THE ALBERT N’YANZA.

+Ein Tanz zur Leichenfeier.+

were beating = were being beaten. See S. 2, N. 1. To beat a drum, +eine Trommel rühren+.

horns (were) blowing = horns resounded (+ertönen+).

Say ‘and one saw all (+alles+) people run in (+nach+) one direction.

+sich an´schließen+, which requires the dat.

in the midst, +inmitten+, which requires the gen.

entertainment = festivity.

+grotesk.+

‘to get up’, here +aus´staffieren+.

‘skin’, here +Fell+, n., of which form a compound expression with the pl. of the nouns ‘leopard’ and ‘monkey’, as explained in S. 71, N. 2.

were suspended = hung; from = +von ... herab+.

to be strapped, +mit einem Riemen befestigt sein+; ‘upon’ here +an+.

+schellen+; to — dance, +während des Tanzens zum Takte+.

+auf+.

style = manner.

created = made.

Say ‘which was (Passive) still heightened’, according to S. 7, N. 3, B.

Use the gen. of the def. art.

‘nogaras’—which use in its unaltered form in German—are a kind of drum.

notes = sounds.