found, for pleafure, of -to caufe an alarm,. See. but is not ch a p .
mfedas^an. accompaniment to dancing. XXVI> t
N° 14, is called bent a, being a branch bent like a bow
by means of % flip of dry reed or warimbo; which cord,
when held to the teeth, is beaten with a fhort hick, and
by being drifted backwards apdi forwards founds not unlike
a. j,ev$S|Jfat’p.
'N° 15, is the Greolerbania'y thirds like a mandoline or
guitar* being made of a half gourd covered with a fheep-
fkin^to-which is fixed a"very, long neck'or handle. This
inftrument has ,hut fqur firings* three long and one Ihort,
which/is thick, and feryes for a bafs; i t ; is .played by the,
finggrs^and- has a very agreeable found, but more fa when
accompanied. .By a fong.’
I l(5, is^ the; trumpet bff‘imr, to command advancing,
retreating,:^ c . and is called, by the negroes the toor.toa,',;-.
&| i | I7£is 2, born ufed to fupply the place^of the other,
or on,the. plantations tq call the flaves to work.
-N\i8, is the I^an^mb-too or iflute, which the# blow
as the Europeans do, after the common way.^ It has- but
four holes for the fingers, and,-yet fj^y%nake it produce
a variety of founds.— Such are the.mufical inftruments of
our African brethren, ta which they dance 'with more
fpirit than we do to. the beft band in Europe.
To what I have -ftat-ed, I will/only add, that they, always
ufe full or half meafure, but never triple* time, in their
dancing mufic, which is not unlike tfrat of a. baker’s
bunt,