MR' LED YARD'S 
mouths like frogs, and that this frog-mulic is ahvays made at 
weddings ; and I believe on all other occafions of merriment 
where there are women. 
" It is remarkable, that the dogs here are of jull the fame fpe- 
cies found among the Otaheiteans. 
" It is alfo remarkable, that in one village I fav/ exaftly the 
fame machines vifed for diveriion as in Ruffia. — I forget the Ruf- 
fian name for it. It is a large kind of wheel, on the extremities 
of which there are fufpended feats, in which people are whirled 
round over and under each other. 
The women drefs their hair behind exactly in the fame 
manner in which the women of the Calmuc Tartars drefs theirs, 
" In the Hiflory of the Kingdom of Benin in Guinea, the 
Chiefs are called Aree Roee, or Street Kings. Among the Iflands 
in the South Sea, Otaheite, &c. they call the Chiefs Arees, and the 
o-reat Chiefs Aree le Hoi. I think this curious ; and fo I do that 
it is a cuftom of the Arabs to fpread a blanket when they would 
invite any one to eat or reft with them. — American Indians fpread 
the beaver fkins on fuch occafions. 
" The 
