Note 48 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
The Whole of the Nicobarese Dance Music.
Fontana, Asiatic Researches, vol. iii.
It is extraordinary that people who are comparatively so far removed from savagedom, and so fond of dancing and singing, should have no musical instruments. They are acquainted with a kind of flute used by the Burmese, and a "guitar," but can show nothing of their own invention. Even the Andamanese, absolute savages as they are, possess a species of sounding-board, on which they beat time to their songs.