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found, for pleafure, or to caufe an alarm> See. but is not chap. 

 ufed as an accompaniment to dancing. 'J^ - ' 



' N" 14, is called benta, being a branch bent like a bow- 

 by means of a flip of dry reed or warimbo ; which cord, 

 when held to the teeth, is beaten with a fliort ftick, and 

 by being fhifted backwards and forwards founds not un- 

 like a jew's-harp. 



N" 15, is the Creole-baniay this is like a mandoline or 

 guitar, being made of a half gourd covered with a flieep- 

 fkin, to which is fixed a very long neck or handle. This 

 inftrument has but four ftrings, three long and one fhort, 

 which is thick, and ferves for a bafs ; it is played by the 

 fingers, and has a very agreeable found, but more fo when 

 accompanied by a fong. 



N" 16, is the trumpet of war, to command advancing, 

 retreating, &;c. and is called by the negroes the too-too, 



N° 17, is a horn ufed to fupply the place of the other, 

 or on the plantations to call the Haves to work* 



N" i8j is the Loango too-too or flute, which they blow 

 as the Europeans do, after the common way. It has but 

 four holes for the fingers, and yet they make it produce 

 a variety of founds. — Such are the. mufical inftruments of 

 our African brethren, to which they dance with more 

 fpirit than we do to the beft band in Europe.. 

 . To what. I have ftated, I will only add, that they always. 

 . ufe full or half meafure, but never triple time, in their 

 dancing mufic, which is not unlike that of a baker's 



buntj^ 



