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or the tibia of the deer's leg ; on this inflrument 
they perform badly, and at beft it is rather a hide- 
ous melancholy difcord, than harmony. It is only, 
young fellows who amufe themfelves on this 
howling inflrument ; but the tambour and rattle, 
accompanied with their fweet low voices,^ pro- 
duce a pathetic harmony, keeping exacl: time 
together, and the countenance of the muftcian, at 
proper times, feems to exprefs the folemn elevated 
Hate of -the mind : at that time there feems not 
only a harmony between him and his inflrument, 
but it initantly touches the feelings of the attentive 
audience, as the influence of an active and power- 
ful fpirit ; there is then an united univerfal fenfation 
of delight and peaceful union of fouls throughout the 
afTembly. 
Their mufic, vocal and inflru mental, united, 
keeps exacl time with the performers or dancers. 
They have an endlefs variety of Heps, but the 
mod common, and that which 1 term the mo ft 
civil, and indeed the mod admired and practifed 
amongfl themfelves, is a flow fliuffling alternate 
Hep; both feet move forward one after the other, 
firft the right foot foremofl, and next the left, 
moving one after the other, in oppofite circles, 
i. e. firft a circle of young men, and within, a 
circle of young women, moving together oppofite 
ways, the men with the courfe of the fun, and the 
females contrary to it ; the men ftrike their arm 
with the open hand, and the girls clap hands, and 
raife their fr$ ill fweet voices, anfwering an elevated 
fhout of the men at dated times of termination of 
the llanzas ; and the girls perform an interlude or 
chorus feparately. 
To accompany their dances they have fong?, 
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