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Everything feel the heat,
The varnished finisher sticks
To your clothing when you
sit in a chair or lean on
a table.
14 I heard as [illegible] Burns
bands played near the
circuit house & sweet
hither & investigated.
The band consisted of usual
banjo or banal drums
a flute, a series of brass
bells or gongo going
sound like - zarrimba &
agambol made of slabs of
tanbo. The music was
like that of the Turkish Hush -
Rundi sort of dance music
but their were no dancers.
The musicians were chiefly
boyos,