TO THE FRONTIER OF CIRCASSIA. 
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their persons; and even for this purpose they chap. 
did not seem desirous to possess the few silver s. / 
pieces we off ered to them. It is evident that their 
favourite musical instrument, the Camil, was not 
always of metal ; for upon the silver tube which 
I have described, the natural joints seen upon 
canes and reeds in the rivers and marshes of 
the country had been imitated by the maker. 
Their dances do not resemble those of any Dances of 
other nation. Something perhaps nearly similar cassians. 
may have been described as practised by the 
inhabitants of the Soulh-Sea Islands. Ten, fifteen, 
or twenty persons, all standing in a line, and 
holding by each other’s arms, begin lolling from 
right to left, lifting up their feet as high as 
possible, to the measure of the tune, and only 
interrupting the uniformity of their motion by 
sudden squeaks and exclamations.. Nothing 
could seem more uneasy than the situation of the 
performers in the middle of the row ; but even 
these, squeezed as they were from one side to 
the other, testified their joy in the same manner. 
After some time, there was a pause; when a 
single dancer, starting from the rest, pranced 
about in the most ludicrous manner, exhibiting 
only two steps that could be assimilated to the 
movements of a dance. Each of these may be 
noticed, not only in our English hornpipe, but in 
