And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace … the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
Returning to the villa, we were greeted by a party which frightened the boys. It was the Moco Jumbo and his suite. The Jumbo was on stilts, with a head, mounted on the actor's head, which was concealed: the music was from two baskets, like strawberry baskets, with little bells within, shook in time. The swordsman danced with an air of menace, the musician was comical, and Jumbo assumed the antic terrible, and was very active on his stilts.
The common English divisions of time, longitude, and latitude are all computed using sexagesimal arithmetic.
