EXPEDITION TO SURINAM. 



race, and beat him again, naked as they were ; while all 

 ideas of fliame on the one fide, and of infult on the other, 

 are totally unknown. — I fhall now fay fomething of their 

 inftrumental mufic and dancing. I have already men- 

 tioned the finging and the dancing of the Log'^^^ tribe 

 in particular ; and will now defcribe that praitifed by the 

 other negro nations in general. 



Their inftruments of mufic, which are not a little in- 

 genious, are all made by themfelves, and confift of thofe 

 reprefented in the annexed plate; where 



N' I, which is called qua-qua, is a hard founding-board, 

 elevated on one fide like a boot-jack, on which they beat 

 time as on a drum, with two pieces of iron, or two bones* 



N' 2, is the kiemba-toetoe^ or hollow reed, which is 

 blown through the noftrils, like the nafal flute of Ota- 

 heite : it has but two holes, one at each end, the one 

 ferving to found it, the other to be touched by the 

 finger. 



N' 3, is the Anjokko-baina^ which is a hard board, fup- 

 ported on both fides like a low feat, on which are placed 

 fmall blocks of different fizes, which being ftruck with 

 two fmall fl:icks like a dulcimer, give different founds,, 

 that are not at all difagreeable. 



N''4, is the great Creole drum, being a hollow tree, 

 open at one end, and covered at the other with a fiieep- 

 fiiin, on which they fit aftride, and fo beat time with the 

 palms of their hands ; anfwering the effect of a bafs-violi 

 to the qua-qua board* 



