A Voyage to 



Cup at one End, and a long Beak at the other, with a 

 winding Channel cut along it, to the end the Liquor may 

 run out gently into the Mouth through a little Hole bored 

 in the Bottom of the Cup or Difh at the Head of the Chan*- 

 nel. With this Inftrument they make themfelves as drunk 

 a-s Beafts, finging without Intermilfion, and all of them 

 together ; but in fo unartifkial a Tone, that three Notes 

 would Cuffice to exprefs the Whole. 



The Words they fing have alfo neither Rhyme nor Ca- 

 dency, nor any other Subject than whatfoever occurrs to 

 their Fancy i Sometimes they recount the Hiftory of their 

 Anceftors; fometimes they fpeak of their Family, ancf 

 fometimes fay what they think fit of the Feftival, and of 

 *he Occafion of celebrating it, &c. 



This, fame Track holds on Day and Night, as long as 

 they have any thing to drink, which does not fail till after 

 ibme Days; for befides that he, in Honour of whom the 

 Feftival is kept, is obliged to provide much Liquor every 

 one of thofe who celebrate it, whether invited or not in- 

 vited, brings fome. They fometimes drink and fing ten. 

 ©r fifteen Days fucceffively, without ceafing: Thofe who 

 are overcome with Drunkennefs, do not therefore give out ; 

 when they have flept in the Dirt, and even in Ordure, 

 they remount their Theatre to fill up the vacant Places, 

 and begin a-freffi. We faw them relieve one another af- 

 ter this Manner Day and Night, a heavy Rain and ftormy 

 Wind no way making them defift, for the Space of tforiee 

 24 Hours y thofe who have not Room on the Theatre, fing 

 below, and dance about it with the Women, if it may 

 be caird Dancing, to walk two and two, bowing and 

 landing upright again fomewhat haftily > as it were to* 

 leap^ withou* ever taking their Feet off the Ground % they 



