HORTH AMERICA* 
JO 5 
or the tibia of the deer’s leg : on this inftrument 
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 inftrument ; but the tambour and rattle, 
accompanied with their fweet low voices, pro- 
duce a pathetic harmony, keeping exadt time 
together, and the countenance of the mufician,at 
proper times, feems to exprefs the folemn elevated 
ilate of the mind : at that time there feems not 
only a harmony between him and his inftrument, 
but it inftantly touches the feelings of the atten- 
tive audience, as the influence of an adtive and 
powerful fpirit ; there is then an united univerfal 
fenfation of delight and peaceful union of fouls 
throughout the aflembly. 
Their mufic, vocal and inftnimental, united, 
keeps exadt time with the performers or dancers* 
They have an endlefs variety of fteps, but the 
moft common, and that which I term the moft 
civil, and indeed the moft admired and pradtifed 
amongft themfelves, is a flow ftiuffling alternate 
ftep ; both feet move forward one after the other, 
flrft the right foot foremoft, and next the left, 
moving one after the other, in oppofite circles, 
L e. firft a circle of young men, and within, a 
circle of young women, moving together oppo- 
iite 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 fhrill fweet voices, anfwering an 
elevated fliout of the men at ftated times of ter- 
mination of the ftanzas ; and the girls perform 
an interlude or chorus feparately. 
To accompany their dances they have fong.% ' 
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