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quently came to grief. They acted like a party of 

 school-children on a romp ; and I have laughed at 

 their queer antics until the tears ran down my cheeks. 



We tried to teach them base-ball, but it was rather 

 too complicated for them. 



An old English game called "jolly stag" suited 

 them much better. They enjoyed seeing Shelley and 

 me box, but never 

 learned to use their 

 hands as we did. 



They had made some 

 advancement in music, 

 and had drums made 

 of hollow, hourglass- 

 shaped pieces of wood, 

 with a head at each 

 end made of the skin 

 of a large lizard. They 

 also had a small wooden 

 instrument, very much 

 like a Jew's-harp, only 

 that the necessary vi- 

 bration was given to 

 the tongue by pulling 

 a string instead of striking it with the finger. On 

 pleasant evenings, two men and two women would 

 stand on a large rock overlooking the valley, and 

 sing for half an hour or more. Their songs were, 



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