In the Eskimo song of the raven and the geese, the raven sings:[130] Oh, I am drowning, help me! Oh, now the waters reach my great ankles. Oh, I am drowning, help me! Oh, now the waters reach my great knees. and so on through all the parts of the body, up to the eyes. [130] W. Thalbitzer, The Ammassalik Eskimo, Meddelelser om Grønland, Vol. XL, p. 211. Compare before p. 309, for a similar formula from Cumberland Sound. Quite remarkable is the analogy between this song and the following Australian war song: Spear his forehead Spear his chest Spear his liver Spear his heart, etc. Rhythmic variations of a similar type develop also in oratory when a number of persons are addressed in the same formal way: As an example may serve the following address in a Kwakiutl speech: Now you will witness, Northerners,[131] the dance of Many-on-Fire, the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents, Now you will witness, Great Kwakiutl,[131] the dance of Many-on-Fire, the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents, Now you will witness, Rich Side,[131] the dance of Many-on-Fire, the Daughter of Giver-of-Presents, [131] These are names of tribes, Columbia Contributions to Anthropology, III, p. 140. or: “I have come Northerners; I have come Great Kwakiutl, I have come Rich Side.”[132] [132] Ibid., p. 142. The repetitions discussed so far are rhythmic in form, varied in contents. They may be compared to an orderly succession of decorative motives that agree in the plan of the unit, but vary in details. In poetry rhythmic repetitions of identical formal units are frequent. These occur in all songs without words, consisting of vocables only. An example of this is a Kwakiutl canoe song in which every syllable is sung with one stroke of the paddles: Aw, ha ya ha ya hä ha ya he ya ä he ya ha ya ä A, ha ya ha ya hä aw, ha ya he ya hä he ya ha ya hei ya hä hä hä wo wo wo. They are also found in introductions to many songs in which the tune is carried by vocables as an introduction to the words of the song:[133] Mai hamama. Haimama hamamai hamamamai. Hamama hamamayamai Haimama hamamai hamamamai. [133] The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians; Rep. U. S. National Mus. for 1895, Washington, 1897, p. 703.