Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the tunes to those of the Arabs in Asia Minor. Several times two of them sung the same tune at once but always one a third above the other, forming a concord with the greatest precision. These savages nevertheless manifested not only an indifference but even a de- cided aversion to the sound of the violin, the.effect of which was tried upon them more than once. On one occa- sion, when lively tunes and very dis- tinct in their measure were played, the bow dropped from the hand of the per- former, on his observing that the whole assembly had stopped their ears with their fingers. | They live chiefly on shell-fish, and the task of procuring these devolves on the