The Music of Hindostan c6.236
The Music of Hindostan c6.236
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c6.236
It seems possible that, since French sailors are chiefly Bretons, these boatmen may have heard this tune at the French port of Pondicherry which is not far from Negapatam; if so, their treatment of it is interesting; they have smoothed out the articulations of its rhythm, and bridged the leaps of the melody.