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to mufic, fuppofing a ranger going to battle, and thus chap. 

 taking leave of his girl : XXVi. 



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Oan bus adioji - o da fo ad'wjfo 

 One bufs good-by o 'tis fo good-by girl I miift go 



vie de - ^0 



o 



me lohy fo fighiy nte mati -9 

 I love for to fight like a raaii o 



IS 



Amimba me dego na booJy 0 da fo ndioj/o me do go. 

 Amimba I go to the woods o 'tis fo good-by girl, I muft go. 



— ..'1 hfijj i/7ii;/j-fO(i ■ ': : ; 



Such is their vocal melody ; and of their inftrumental 

 mulic, and dancing, which is perfedlly to time, I Ihall 

 fpeak hereafter, having already given a fliort account of 

 that which is pradtifed by the Loango negroes. That 

 thefe people are neither divefted of a good ear, nor 

 poetical genius, has been frequently proved, when they 

 have had the advantages of a good education. Amongft 

 "others, Phillis Wbeath^, Who was a Have 2.t>BoJion in 

 New England, learned the Latin language, and wrote 

 thirty-eight elegant pieces of poetry on different fubje6ts, 

 which were publilhed in 1773. As a fpecimen, I cannot 

 refrain here infeiting the following extra6l from that en- 

 titled, " Thoughts on Imagination.'^ 



" Now here, now there, the roving fancy flies, 

 " Till fome lov'd obje(5t ftrikes her wand'ring eyes, 

 * Whofe filken fetters all the fenfes bind, 

 " And foft captivity invades the naind. 



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