 | William Mariner - 1817 - 638 sider
...principal matabooles, in the middle of whom sits one who beats time upon a loose flat piece of hard wood, about three feet long, and an inch and a half square,...the latter end. The dancers, who are all men, in the mean while perform their evolutions round the chorus, exhibiting a vast variety of very graceful movements... | |
 | William Mariner - 1817 - 632 sider
...principal matabooies, in the middle of whom sits one who beats time upon a loose flat piece of hard wood, about three feet long, and an inch and a half square,...the latter end. The dancers, who are all men, in the mean while perform their evolutions round the chorus, exhibiting a vast variety of very graceful movements... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1827 - 722 sider
...or twelve of the chiefs or principal matabooles, in the middle of whom sits one who beats time MIHHI a loose flat piece of hardwood, about three feet long,...meanwhile perform their evolutions round the chorus, exhibiting a vast variety of very graceful movements with the arms and head, accompanied by expressions... | |
 | Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocott - 1928 - 182 sider
...by chiefs and superior matapule : . . . and a dance very difficult to execute, not only on account of the accompanying gesture, but also of the singing....the latter end. The dancers, who are all men, in the meantime perform their evolutions round the chorus, exhibiting a vast variety of very graceful movements... | |
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The chorus is composed of ten or twelve of the chiefs or principal matabooles, in the middle of whom sits one who beats time upon a loose flat piece of hard wood, about three feet long, and an inch and a half square, fastened only at one end upon another... 