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flowers. Outside the circle stood two men with 
muscle horns. The hollow tones of these 
horns are the signal for a chorus performed 
by the whole company, with violent movements 
of the arms and gesticulations meant to be in 
consonance with the words. When this ceased, 
a duet from the pair in the middle was accom- 
panied by the drums and horns only ;. Langediu 
fully equalling his young companion in anima- 
tion. The chorus then began again, and this 
alternation was repeated several times, till the 
young songstress whose motions had been grow- 
ing more and more vehement, suddenly fell down 
as dead. Langediu’s song then became lower 
and more plaintive: he bent over the body, and 
seemed to express the deepest sorrow ; the whole 
circle joined in his lamentations, and the play 
concluded. 
Deficient as was my knowledge of the lan- 
guage, I was still able clearly to understand 
the subject of this tragedy, which represented a 
marriage ceremony. ‘The young girl was forced 
to accept of a husband whom she did not love, 
and preferred death to such an union. Perhaps 
