woomph

• The energy with which they dance is extraordinary -- shaking their spears and grunting, they advance with knees raised, like high-stepping horses, until the thigh is almost horizontal, now one leg now the other, with a will, and then one, two, down come the feet together with a thud, the dancers striking their spears in the ground, growling out savagely a sound that I can only express as "woomph, woomph" -- with what a smack their flat feet meet the ground, and what a shrieking yell goes up from all throats as they stop! —  Spinifex and Sand

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