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And he knew his own inability to manage its benefits and ward off its harms. And if that is established, we say that the nature of the land of Fur, which is filled with amusement and play and merriment, requires the slightest amusement, so perhaps they would be free, and we have already established from amusement, whether they were kings or commoners, and Walad Lik gathered all that they could of musical instruments, and you will find that every king has young boys with beautiful voices, and they are called "Kur Kawa," and with them are flutes, with which they play a whistling sound, which is the same thing as us, with the beautiful voices of the flutes and the beautiful voices of the boys, so one hears from all of that a beautiful sound. And the manner of that is that if the king has among the boys ten, for example, two or three or four of them will be the players of the flutes. A hollow, wide interior, rectangular, one end of which is thick, and the second end is thin, which is struck by the hand, its shape is thus. They put some pebbles in it and the boy holds it on the condition that its mouth is sealed with pitch, and he shakes it, and one hears the pebbles in it.

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