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At any time of the day when they are lazy they amuse themselves by singing these couplets but especialy after dark when their candles ^ are lighted which are made of the kernels of a nut abounding much in oyle these are stuck upon a skewer of wood one upon a nother and give a very tolerable light which they often keep burning an hour after dark and if they have strangers in the house much longer. Their drumms are made of a hollow bl
The young girls when ever they can collect 8 or 10 together dance a very indecent dance which they call Timorodee singing most indecent songs and useing most indecent actions in the pratice of which they are brought up from their earlyest Childhood in doing this they keep time to a great nicety. this exercise is however in a great generaly left of as soon as they arrive at years of maturity for as soon as they have form'd a connection with a man it is they are expected to leave of dancing Timorodee One amusement or custom more I must mention tho I ^ must confess I do not expect to be believed as it is founded upon a Custom so inhuman and contrary to the first principals of human nature: it is this, that more than one half of the better sort of the inhabitants have enter'd into a resolution of injoying
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© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 84, 2004
Published by South Seas
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