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A VOYAGE TO 
1 777 ' with two flicks, a piece of the fame fubftance, fplit, and 
laid along the ground, and, by that means, furnifhing a 
tone as acute, as thofe produced by the others were grave. 
The reft of the band, as well as thofe who performed upon 
the bamboos, fung a flow and foft air, which fo tempered 
the harfher notes of the above inftruments, that no bye- 
ftanaer, however accuftomed to hear the moft perfect and 
varied modulation of fweet founds, could avoid confeff- 
ing the vaft power, and pleating effect, of this Ample 
harmony. 
The concert having continued about a quarter of an 
hour, twenty women entered the circle. Moft of them had, 
upon their heads, garlands of the crimfon flowers of the 
China rofe, or others; and many of them had ornamented 
their perfons with leaves of trees, cut with a great deal of 
nicety about the edges. They made a circle round the 
chorus, turning their faces toward it, and began by ftnging 
a foft air, to which refponfes were made by the chorus in 
the fame tone; and thefe were repeated alternately. All 
this while, the women accompanied their fong with feveral 
very graceful motions of their hands toward their faces, 
and in other directions at the fame time, making conftantly 
a ftep forward, and then back again, with one foot, while 
the other was Axed. They then turned their faces to the 
aftembly, fung fome time, and retreated llowly in a body, to 
that part of the circle which was oppoAte the hut where the 
principal fpeClators fat. After this, one of them advanced 
from each Ade, meeting and pafting each other in the front, 
and continuing their progrefs round, till they came to the 
reft. On which, two advanced from each Ade, two of whom 
alfo pa£fed each other, and returned as the former; but 
the other two remained, and to thefe came one, from each 
Ade, 
