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ten years. To procure the company an agrees " 
able furprife, he ftnt for it privately ; and, whea 
I arrived, he put it into my hands, requefting 
me to employ my talents for their amufement* 
The reader will form a juft idea of the inftru- 
ment when told, that the ftrings were made by 
Engelbrecht himfelf. I took it, however, and 
fcraped a few country dances, which inftantly, 
as if by magic, fetthe whole company in mo- 
tion. This mufic tortured my ear, and fet 
my teeth on edge j but to every one elfe it 
was delightful, and they ceafed not their dan-^ 
cing, till fatigue left them no ftrength to con* 
tinue it. The next day^ the w^hole group, 
men and women, came in a body to beg me 
again to enable them to renew their pleafure ; 
and the day following the fame folicitations 
were repeated. Thus almoft the whole of my 
three days were fpent in fcraping catgut, while 
the noify crew fkipped joyoufly around me. 
In the midft of thefe orgies, which I can 
compare to nothing better than the nodurnal 
revels of witches, one thing aftonifhed me: 
the dancing fo compfetely occupied every mo- 
inent, that the favourite Uquor was forgotten. 
ISut fipce the arrival of Pinar, his liberality ha4 
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