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' dble diftafte for it, contented myfelf with the 
milk of my own dairy, and gave to my dogs 
what my people lett unconfumed of theirs. 
The evening of my arrival there was a ball : 
for it muft be obferved, that among the plea- 
fures which the hofpitality of favages endea-» 
yours to procure for ftraagers, dancing holds 
the foremoft rank. This noify feftivity, had 
}t been the firft time of my witneffing it, might 
have afforded me amufement : but I had fo 
often heard their ha ha^ ho hoy that the in- 
tereft was vanifhed. My attention was ex- 
cited, however, by one of the muficians, who 
played on the flute in a manner I did not com- 
prehend, and which awakened my curiofity* 
Having put the inftrument to his mouth, he 
drew from it very loud tones : then, fuddenly 
breaking off, he repeated the laft notes of his 
piufic fo as to produce an exad: imitation of 
an echo. This variation on a fl;ringed inftru- 
ment would not have furprifed me, but on a 
wind inftrument it was by no means fo eafy, 
I was defirous of knowing the method he em- 
ployed, and, upon his explaining it to me, I 
found it to be extremely fimple ; it confifted 
in fliifting his flute from his mouth to one of 
his 
