Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... tlie dance an idea may be formed from the representations we have of dancing satyrs. They merely turn the body half round, with a jump, and back again, grinning all the time, and raising the hands about the height of the head. The theme of their song it is difficult to understand, and its tune owes very little to the science of harmonics. Their gamut consists of five or six gruff tones, which they run through in a breath, beginning with the lowest and ascending to the highest, over and over again, without variation. Both sexes wear the same description of clothing, but folded in a different manner. The dress consists of two long, heavy cloths, made of cotton thread, and of a dirty drab, i. e. the nrural colour of the web. Two of them are stitched together in the middle for one dress, and are worn by the men simply wound round the body as low as the knees, passed under the right arm, which is left at liberty, and the end thrown loosely, and not ungracefully, over the left shoulder. I have often thought that the appearance of this dress resembled that of the Roman toga; but the reader will probably think my perspective adjusted to my imagination. Be that as it may, I cannot imagine the ancient Roman (if we except the quality and cleanliness of their habiliments,) to have presented a finer figure than those of some of the Thodawurs. The bodies of the women are literally enveloped in these sheets, no part but the head, feet, and occasionally the right hand, being exposed. They are fond of embroidering the ends of the cloth, both for themselves and the men, with blue thread, which they do very neatly. The cloth is manufactured at Sireemooga and in the neighbourhood, and brought to the foot of the hills, where they barter it for ghee. Their hair is the only cover...
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