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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, produce 
a pathetic harmony, keeping exadt time together, 
and the countenance of the mufician, at proper 
times, feems to exprefs the folemn elevated ftate of 
the mind: at that time there feems not only a har- 
mony between him and his inftrument, but it in- 
ftantly touches the feelings of the attentive audience, 
as the influence of an adtive and .powerful fpirit; 
there is then an united univerfal fenfation of de- 
light and peaceful union of fouls throughout the 
aflembly. 
Their mufic, vocal and inftrumental, united, keeps 
ex aft time with the performers or dancers. 
They have an endlefe 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 fhuffling alternate 
ftep ; both feet move forward one after the other, 
firft the right foot foremoft, and next the left, mov- 
ing one after the other, in oppofite circles, i. e. firft 
a circle of young men, and within, a circle of young 
women, moving together oppofite ways, the men 
with the courfe of die fun, and the females contrary 
to it 5 the men ftrike their arm with the open hand, 
,and the girls clap hands, and raife their fhrill fweet 
voices, anfwering an elevated fhout of the men at 
ftated times of termination of the ftanzas; and the 
girls perform an interlude or chorus feparately. 
To accompany their dangft, they have fongs 
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