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but this might be only fancy. However, I am 

 told, that they have dances which not only repre- 

 sent courtship and marriage, but being brought 

 to bed. Their music consisted of nothing but 

 Gambys (Eboe drums), Shaky-shekies, and Kitty- 

 katties : the latter is nothing but any flat piece of 

 board beat upon with two sticks, and the former is 

 a bladder with a parcel of pebbles in it. But the 

 principal part of the music to which they dance is 

 vocal ; one girl generally singing two lines by 

 herself, and being answered by a chorus. To 

 make out either the rhyme of the air, or meaning 

 of the words, was out of the question. But one 

 very long song was about the Duke of Wellington, 

 every stanza being chorussed with, 



" Ay ! hey-day ! Waterloo ! 

 Waterloo ! ho ! ho ! ho ! " 



/ too had a great deal to do in the business, for 

 every third word was " massa ; " though how I 

 came there, I have no more idea than the Duke. 



The singing began about six o'clock, and lasted 

 without a moment's pause till two in the morning ; 

 and such a noise never did I hear till then. The 

 whole of the floor which was not taken up by the 

 dancers was, through every part of the house ex- 

 cept the bed-rooms, occupied by men, women, 

 and children, fast asleep. But although they were 

 allowed rum and sugar by whole pailfuls, and 

 were most of them merry in consequence, there 



