Twelve Andamanese Songs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Twelve Andamanese Songs By cicadas my ears are rasped 0. My ears are rasped O and buzzing 0. My ears are rasped 0 and buzzing 0. But from this faithful translation the complete meaning of the lyric would never be guessed. The Andamanese audience, from certain familiar allusions, understands at once that the composer is telling why he failed to secure a wild pig in a recent hunting expedition. To make the matter clear the British collector offers the following expanded, explanatory translation The beetles and cicadas are making such a noise in the jungle that my ears are deafened and I cannot hear the sound of pigs. My ears are deafened, and there is a singing in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.