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ot divflj and the ialea regwditig them are like the lying and 

 unfounded Btori^a contained jo romance ; pieces of bamboo 

 and wood are occaaionally mtTodn^^dj and the performance 

 19 coarie and vulgar in the extreme, in fact not wonh 

 looking at. 



EtJROPSAPf BlltS CALLED TiNDArC, (JJ ^ TAPJ-LAK.) 



When Europeans make an entertainment, they set out a 

 long table, at which scorea of people sit down, whi^h is 

 called a feast or fcsta 1|f ^ pe^sit^at), and when the 

 stringed instrumenta play up, men and women stand opposite 

 each other and dance, which is called dancing or tandak (jj 

 tan-lak.) When a young woman h marriageable, she ia 

 allowed to select her own partner, who ia called her loTer or 

 sooka ^ loo-kak). If they are fond of each other, 

 they dance together, in order to settle the match. Amongst 

 their inBtrumenta of music, some are long like the guitar, 

 the sound of which ii clear and loud : some are ai a tall aa a 

 man which are played standing, emitting a broad deep tone ; 

 and some are shaped like a harp, the sound of which ia tink- 

 ling and pleasant : tiUogether ihey produce an elegant air, and 

 the instruments themselves arc minutely wrought and skil- 

 ful ly finished 1 a 9et of the beat may be worth about a 

 thousand reals. 



^ BAMBOO RAFTa. 



in foreign parts, when people with to crosa a river, they do 

 not use ferry-boats, but raiher rafta^ formed of several scorea 

 of split banibooa, entwined together. Neither do they 

 make use of oflrs to propel ihcie, but a long pieco of ground 

 rattan, several hundred feet in length, ia drawn acroda the river, 

 from one hank to the other, and fastened either to a post, or 

 the trunk of some tree ; after which several smaller raltana 

 are tied to the raft, and then made fast to a ring thai runs 

 along the larger rattan. Whilst crossing, sevoral persons 

 take hold of the ratlan_ and push themBelves om the 

 9 1 ream. 



