The savage reveals that his father's name is Tomakin. Bernard starts paying close attention-as you should.Meanwhile, he explains to them both that his mother, Linda, came from the Other Place (meaning off the Reservation) before he was born. He averts his eyes again from the beauty that is Lenina.When he does, little animated hearts go flying through the air. Meanwhile, the young man hasn't yet looked at Lenina.But he says they never give him the chance to do fun stuff like that because he's white (not dark-skinned like the other Indians). The young man says he himself should have been the sacrifice (that is, the boy that got ritualistically whipped).Lenina responds with a useless hypnopaedic rhyme.The young man points to the blood on the floor and says, "Do you see that damned spot?" (Shakespeare, anyone?).Bernard is shocked the savages don't generally know about the outside world.He asks them if they're civilized, that is, they come from outside the Reservation. Bernard and Lenina are left alone (Lenina: sob "it's so terrible!" sob) until a young man, white but wearing Indian dress, joins them.Three women pick him up and carry him away, hopefully for some sort of medical treatment and not more lashings. The dancers all pick up the snakes and run away, leaving behind the collapsed, bloody boy on the floor.He shakes it over the pile of snakes, dropping the blood onto the writhing creatures. An old man touches a white feather to the boy's bloody body, which not surprisingly turns red. Lenina can't take it-she's all tears and "Oh, no, stop!".As he walks, a man with a coyote mask whips him. He makes the sign of the cross and begins to circle around a pile of snakes. A crucifix is brought out along with a boy of eighteen, naked except for a white cloth (strategically placed, we expect).The leader of the dancers starts tossing the snakes about the room.The "savages" are dancing and screaming "as though they were being killed," which we think (not-coincidentally) reminds us of the earlier orgy-porgy scene from the other world.Alas, this doesn't last for long-the drumming quickly turns into a ritualistic, ceremonial dance.She tries to lose herself in the music with a good ol' round of "orgy-porgy." Lenina finds a substitute for drugs: pounding drums.Basically, it's his way of proving that he's a big tough man. In fact, he makes a point of commenting on all the savage goings-on, like breast-feeding and combing for lice. She goes for her soma, only to realize she left it behind. So, they don't have such thing as old age. Bernard explains that they (in the controlled world) have learned to keep people "young" until they're about sixty, at which point they die. Lenina is horrified: she's never seen such an old man before. The two of them observe an old man climbing down a ladder.Bernard reminds her that these people haven't heard of Our Ford, and that they are used to living this way.She can't deal with the general dirtiness, since "cleanliness is next to fordliness." When they get to the pueblo, the guide leaves to go in and ask for directions.They're also carrying snakes, which doesn't help her comfort level. Two little Indians come running along, naked and painted, which totally freaks out Lenina. Following behind the guide, she and Bernard proceed to climb upwards, finally emerging on a flat deck of stone at the top.Lenina doesn't like this, either, because it makes her feel small.
The guide leads them, amid the sound of beating drums, to the bottom of a three-hundred-foot precipice.Lenina is being whiny- she doesn't like it here, and she doesn't like their Indian guide (mostly because he doesn't smell good). Lenina and Bernard are left at Malpais.
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