Cj(8 THE BEE, OR Jan. If 



iflanders. I fee no inftance of a tool formed defignedly 

 for the ufe of the right or left hand particularly, as the 

 cotogon is among the Yorkertick Tartars. 



" There is a remarkable affinity between the Ruffian 

 and the Greek drefs. The fillet round the temples of 

 the Greek and Ruffian women, is a circumftance of 

 drefs that perhaps would ftrike nobody as it does me ; 

 and fo of the wampum work too, wliich is alfo found 

 among them both. They fpin here with the diftafFand 

 fpindle only, like the French peafantry and others in 

 Europe; and the common Arab loom is upon our prin- 

 ciple, though rude. 



" I faw to-day (Aug. lo.") an Arab woman white, 

 like the white Indians in the South Sea iflands, Ifth- 

 mus of Darien, Sec. Thefe kind of people all look alike. 



*' Among the Greek women here, I find the inciden- 

 tal Archangel head drefs. 



" Their mufic is inftrumental, confifting of a drum 

 and pipe ; both which refemble thofe two inftruments in 

 the fouth feas : the drum is exaftly like the Otaheite 

 drum ; the pipe is made of cane, and confifts of a long 

 and fhort tube joined ; the mufic refembles very much 

 the bagpipe, and is pleafant. All their mufic is con- 

 cluded, if not accompanied, by the clapping of hands. 

 I think it fingular, that the women here make a noife 

 with their mouths like frogs, and that this frog mufic 

 is always made at weddings, and I believe on ail other 

 cccafions of merriment where there are women. 



" It is remarkable that the dogs here are of jufl the 

 fame fpecies found among the Otaheitians. 



" It is alfo remarkable, that in one village I faw ex- 

 actly the fame macliines ufed for diverficn as in Ruffia. 

 I forgot the Ruffian name for it. It is a large kind of 

 wheel, on the extremities of which there are fufpended 

 feats, in which the people are whirled round over and 

 tinder each other. 



" The women drefs their hair behind exaftly in the 

 fame manner in which the Calmuck Tartars dref^ 

 theirs. 



