almost universal
in Europe, is the musical scale of portions of India. What conclusions of
ethnologic import may be drawn from this cannot here be more than
suggested, but the latter fact seems to bear upon the association of the
Hindoos with ourselves in the great Aryan family, Our _do, re, mi, fa,
sol, la, si, do_ correspond with the Hindoo _sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni,
sa_, and the intervals are the same--two semi-tones, of which the
Malaysian is destitute. The Hindoos have also terms in their language for
the tonic, mediant and dominant, so that they know something of harmony,
of which the Malays seem quite ignorant.

The flageolets from Java are all made on the principle of the boy's elder
whistle, but have finger-holes--generally six, but sometimes only four.
Two bamboo jewsharps--as I suppose I must call them--about a foot long,
and with a string to fasten to the ear, as it seems, are much like two
from Fiji in the Smithsonian. There are plenty of drums from Amboyna,
Timor and the islands adjacent. The most unpromising and curious of all,
however, is the _anklong_ of Sumatra, which is all of bamboo, and has
neither finger-holes, keys, strings nor parchment. Three bamboo tubes,
closed below, are suspended vertically, so that studs at their lower ends
rattle in holes in a horizontal bamboo. This causes them to emit musical
sounds of a pitch proportioned to their length, as in an organ-pipe. The
respective lengths of the three tubes are as one, two and four, so that
the note of two is an octave graver than one, and that of four an octave
graver still. Thus, when they are shaken the sounds are in accord. Twelve
similar sets of three each are suspended from a single bar, and their
lengths are so proportioned that they sound the musical scale--the three
in the first frame, we will say, sounding the tenor C, the middle C and
the C in the third space in the treble clef; the next set the
corresponding D's above, and so on. It really does not sound so badly as
one might suppose.

Here is a table, conchological, entomological and ornithological, which
might stay us a while if we were making a catalogue. A conch-shell twenty
inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample--not a small
gasteropod! They do not excel us so much in butterflies as I had expected,
but some of the beetles are fearful things--six inches long, and with
veritable arms on their heads each five inches long, with elbow-joint,
wrist and two claws o