jo8 TRAVELS IN 
dances and different iniftruments of the Hot- 
tentots, The latter, as may readily be per- 
ceived, ar^ not very curious ; but this detail, 
which in fome meafure tends to throw light 
on the manners of thefe favages, deferves not 
to be ne^ -eded. 
Approaching near to Nature, and under 
her immediate prote6lion, the favages have 
no need of our noify and moft harmonious 
orcheftras to excite them in their feftivals 
to the liveiieft demonft rations of pleafure and 
joy. The confined and monotonous modula- 
tion of their mufic is fulEcient ; and I believe 
that even without it they would caper equal- 
ly well. 
In his Courfe of Geographical Le^ures one of 
our modern authors, who has made it a rule 
to ftudy men at the fame time that he de- 
fcribes places, obferves, with great fagacity. 
That in a polifhed ftate dancing and fing- 
^' ing are two arts ; but that in the bofom of 
*^ the forefts they are almoft natural figns of 
" concord, friendfhip, tendernefs, and plea- 
fure. We learn under mafters," adds this 
writer, " to command our voice, and to 
move our limbs in cadence ; the favage 
has no other inftrudor but his own paf- 
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