...dressed out for the occasion, who form a ring round a male and female dancer, who perform to the music of drums and the songs of the other females of the party,...over the song, while her companions repeat in chorus. Plays, or dances, very frequently take place on Saturday nights, when the slaves on the neighbouring...

...dressed out for the occasion, who form a ring round a male and female dancer, who perform to the music of drums and the songs of the other females of the party,...usually accompanied by a kind of rattles, being small calibashes filled with the seed of a plant called by the negroes Indian shot. Near at hand this music...

...occasion, who form a ring round a male and female dancer, who perform to the music of drums and the N 270 songs of the other females of the party, one alternately...usually accompanied by a kind of rattles, being small calibashes filled with the seed of a plant called by the negroes Indian shot. Near at hand this music...

...dressed out for the occasion, who form a ring round a male and female dancer, who perform to the music of drums and the songs of the other females of the party,...companions repeat in chorus. Both the singers and dancers show the exaetot precision as to time and measure. This rude music is usually accompanied by a kind...

...Plays, as they call them, is their principal and favourite one [amusement]. This is an assemblage ofboth sexes, who form a ring round a male and female dancer,...shew the exactest precision as to time and measure . . . When two dancers have fatigued themselves pretty well, a second couple enter the ring, and thus...