EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



and harmonious, moflily terminating with a vowel, as C H A P. 

 may be obferved by the few fpecimens above. They 

 have no calculation of time, a firing with fome knots be- 

 ing the only calendar they are acquainted with. Their 

 mulical inftruments confill: of a kind of flute called too- 

 toe, and made of a fingle piece of thick reed, on which 

 they make a found no better than the lov/ing of an 

 ox, without either meafure or variety.— Another inftru- 

 ment is alfo ufed by them to blow upon, called quarta 

 (by Ovid a Jirinx\ by fome poets Par^s cbaunter) and 

 confifts of reeds of dilferent lengths, that are joined to- 

 gether like the pipes of an organ, but even at the top^ 

 which they hold with both hands to the lips, and which, 

 by fliifting from fide to fide, produces a warbling of clear 

 but difcordant founds, agreeable to none but themfelves; 

 nor have I feen a better reprefentation of the god Pan 

 playing on his cbaunter, than a naked Indian among the 

 verdant foliage playing upon one of thofe reedy pipes. 

 They alfo make flutes of the bones of their enemies, of 

 which I have one now in my poffeffion. Their dancing, 

 if fuch it may be called, confifls in flamping on the 

 ground, balancing on one foot, and fcaggering round in 

 difierent attitudes for many hourSj as if intoxicated. 



The Indians are a very fociable people among them- 

 felves, and frequently meet together in a large wigwam 

 or carbet that is in every hamlet for the purpofe, where, 

 if they do not play or dance, they amufe each other 

 with fictitious flories, generally concerning ghoftsj witches. 

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