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ONE BLACK FLUTE TO TWO BLACK TAMBOURINES AND A DRUM
| The curious airs this flute-player can finger out of a few holes are not remarkable, but in the rhythms and cross-rhythms which the tambourine strummers and drummer weave as an accompaniment are strange, wild effects of which syncopated Negro-African melodies are but faint, poor echoes |
THE WAY THEY PLAY DRAUGHTS IN THE SAHARA
| Arab boys of the Desert love checkerboard games with all the zest of their Saracen forefathers, but boards of morocco leather and pieces of ivory are only for sheikhs. Even wood is so scarce in the Sahara that camel dung is used for fuel. So the young players draw their lines in the sand, and make their draughtsmen out of the fuel material |