... have little time to devote to amusement, but such occasions as offer they eagerly embrace. Plays, as they call them, are their principal and favourite one. This is an assemblage of both sexes, dressed out for the occasion, who form a ring round a... An Account of Jamaica, and Its Inhabitants - Page 261by John Stewart - 1808 - 305 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 494 pages
...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... | |
| John Stewart - 1823 - 406 pages
...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... | |
| John Stewart - 1823 - 400 pages
...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... | |
| 1823 - 508 pages
...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... | |
| Peter A. Roberts - 1997 - 320 pages
...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... | |
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