. L'histoire de l'humanité . races naturelles nous trouvons à peine des poèmes autres que lyriques, et ces derniers expriment l'amour, la tristesse, l'admiration et les sentiments religieux. Partout où la poésie des races naturelles a été mise en mots, elle est également chantée, et ainsi la poésie est étroitement alliée withmusicod. Comme dans le cas de nos poètes, nous trouvons ici aussi des mots et des phrases qui n'ont été préservés que dans la poésie, et des allongements et écourtages inhabituels pour le mètre. Dans les chansons dansantes des Banks Islanders, les obsoleils empruntés aux îles voisines forment une langue poétique régulière. Il n'y a pas de la

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. The history of mankind . atural races we scarcely find any but lyric poems, and these express love, sorrow, admiration, and religious sentiments. Wherever the poetry of the natural raceshas been put into words it is also sung, and thus poetry is closely allied withmusic. As in the case of our own poets, we find here also words and phraseswhich have only been preserved in poetry, and unusual lengthenings and shorten-ings for the sake of metre. In the dancing songs of the Banks Islanders obsoletewords borrowed from neighbouring islands form a regular poetic language tothemselves. There is no lack of bold imagery, and a whole list of artifices suchas repetition, climax, abbreviation, and artistic obscurity come into play. Thealliance with religion is always preserved. In Santa Maria the following song issung in honour of a person away at sea :— Leale ale !I am an eagle, I have soared to the furthest dim horizon.I am an eagle, I have flown and landed on Mota.With whirring: noise have I sailed round the mountain.. Ornament on coco-nut shell, from Isabel in theSolomon Islands. (After Codrington.) 7o THE HISTORY OF MANKIND I have gone down island after island in the West to the base of Heaven. I have sailed, I have seen the lands, I have sailed in circles. An ill wind has drifted me away, has drawn me away from you two. How shall I make my way round to you two ? The sounding sea stretches empty to keep me away from you. You are crying, mother, for me, how shall I see thy face ? You are crying, father, for me, ■—and so on. The last words of the poem are :— Ask and hear ! who wrote x the song of Maros ?It was the poet who sits by the road to Lakona. In the form of this lyric, as given by Codrington, we see the alliance withmusic. Choric and religious songs were accompanied by music, / and there are sacred drums and trumpets which may only besounded by the initiated. The Tucanos of Brazil use longflutes to invoke the spirit Yurupari. Women may not lookupon him and con

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