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Posted By: Gibb Sahib
29-Sep-11 - 05:33 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
xxxx1850        Baird, Robert. _Impressions and Experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849._ Vol. 1. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons.

Early 1849, Antigua.

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Nothing to break the calm silence of the scene, save the occasional chaunt of a negro band, who were engaged, at some distance, putting up the sails of a windmill, and whose chorus, rude and imperfectly heard as it was, sounded pleasantly in the ear, as the indication of light hearts.
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