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mms. Their wind inftruments are a fort cf 

 ftraight trumpets, four or five Swedijh ells 

 long, which make a bleating found. Some- 

 times they make ufe of a great horn in 

 form of an S, which is however only played 

 upon when the nabob or fome other man of 

 quality is coming. The reveille was played 

 upon aflagelet from the caftle. Guittars and 

 fiddles were the inftruments of beggars, who 

 begged in verfe, and accompanied them with 

 vocal mufic. A war-like mufic is generally in 

 ufe among the fouthern Afiaticks, and this they 

 want very much ; for fofter tunes would make 

 them more effeminate. Perhaps the Spartans 

 had more than meer cuftom in view when they 

 broke a firing of the lyre which was above 

 the ufual number. 



Their jugglers are not to be compared 

 with thole of China, except that they can 

 fafcinate in fuch a manner the Cobra de Capello 

 {Coluber Naja Linn.) as to make it dance k » 

 When the Moors or other people have a mind 

 to divert therafelves according to the cuftom 



k Kempferi Ameer. . Exotic. Fafcic. III. Obf. IX. p. 565 — 

 573, gives the moil: credible and curious account of thefe 

 tricks with the Cobra de Cafsllo* F„ 



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