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CHAP. N" 5, is the great Loango drum^ being covered at both 

 ^ ^^y i ends, and ferves the fame purpofe as a bafs drum. 



N** 6, is the Papa drum, beaten as the others. 



7, is the fmall Loango drum, beaten together with 

 the gre^shone. 



N° 8, the fmall Creole drum, for the fime nfe. 

 N* 9, is called coeroema ; this is a wooden cup, inge- 

 nioufly made, covered alfo with a llieep-ikin, and beaten 

 with two fmall rods or drum-flicks, after the manner of 

 the qua-qua board. 



lo, is the Loa7^go-bdnia. This I thought exceedingly- 

 curious, being a dry board, on which are laced, and kept 

 down by a tranfverfe bar, different fized elaflic fplinters 

 of the palm-tree, like pieces of whalebone, in fuch a 

 manner that both ends are elevated by two other bars 

 that are fixed under them; and the above apparatus being 

 placed on 



N° II, which is a large empty callebajlo to promote the 

 found ; the extremities of the fplinters are fnapt by the 

 fingers, fomething in the manner of a piano-forte, when 

 the mufic has a foft and very pleafing effedl. 



N* 12, is called by the negroes faka-faka, being a hol- 

 ' low gourd, with a flick and handle fixed through it, and 

 filled with fmall pebbles and peafe, not unlike the magic 

 fliell of the Indians. This they hold above their heads, 

 and while they dance rattle it to meafure. 



N* 13, is a concb, or fea-fhell, which by blowing they 



found, 



