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their ever-delighting Banjar. The firft is a 

 long hollow piece of wood, with a dried 

 flieep fkln tied over the end ; the fecond is a 

 calabafli containing a number of fmall ftones^ 

 fixed to a fhort ftick which ferves as the han- 

 dle ; and the third is a coarfe and rough kind 

 of guitar. While one negro ftrikes the Banjar, 

 another lhakes the rattle with great force of 

 arm, and a third fitting acrofs the body of the 

 drum, as it lies lengthwife upon the ground, 

 beats and kicks the flieep fkin at the end, in. 

 violent exertion with his hands and heels, and 

 a fourth fitting upon the ground at the other 

 end, behind the man upon the drum, beats 

 upon the wooden fides of it with two flicks. 

 Together with thefe noify founds, numbers of 

 the party of both fexes bawl forth their dear de-^ 

 lighting fong with all pofllble force of lungs 5 

 and from the combination, and tout enfemble of 

 the fcene, a fpedator would require only a 

 flight aid from fancy to tranfport him to the 

 favage wilds of Afi ica. On great occafions the 

 band is increafed by an addiiional number 

 pf drums, rattles, and voices. 



The dance confifts of ftamping of the 



