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The Key-hiv-tik. 



[IVoTember, lStt4. 



tlie whalers, and it seemed possible to teach them chess. A favorite 

 game was that of the cup and ball. 



They gave him an amusing exhibition of one of their serio-comic 

 diversions. This was a performance on the J^ey-Joiv-tll', their bass- 

 drum: the onlv musical instrument wdiich he found among them. The 

 instrument itself, and the changing characters from the comic and gro- 

 tesque to the serious and superstitious, carried through the perform- 

 ances by both men and women, are described at some length. 



JM.AYING THE KEY-LOW-TIK. 



The drum is made from the skin of the deer, which is stretched 

 over a hoo]) made of wood, or of bone from the fin of a whale, by the 



