A FISHING HUT. 
CHAPTER X. 
SONGS. 
Many of their Songs, which are extremely numerous, contain 
very beautiful ideas. The metre is difficult to describe; there 
being no regular measure of verse. The chief object is to 
make the lines suit their tunes, which a musical gentleman 
described as reminding him of the Gregorian chants. * 
They have songs on every subject, on love and war, as well 
as incantations, laments, and traditions, and no man would be 
esteemed an eloquent orator if he could not introduce several 
quotations from them, containing allusions applicable to the 
subject on which he is speaking. In addition to these there are 
numerous nursery and boat songs. The deeds of their warriors 
are thus handed down. 
* See page 27. 
