Through their dance, they express their labours, rejoicings and sorrows. The work ends with general rejoicings, celebrations, and a display of fireworks. For one week before the ceremony, rejoicings on a grand scale continued day and night. He recovered in time to join in "the champagne-filled, beer-laden, hangover-inducing rejoicings of Sydney". Amidst the rejoicings, Getzel slips quietly away to resume his travels. Work started on 29 August 1861, with a "programme of rejoicings" to celebrate the event. Light, truth, the unraveling of involved matters, public rejoicings; according to another reading, vacillation.