. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ] petit tambour ou timbale, bassin de cuivre ou de terre reconvert dune peau tendue, and grosses timbales encuivre portees sur un chameau ou un mulet.—Devic {Diet. Etym.) writes: BasLatin, naeara; bas grec, av&xapa. Ce nest point comme on la dit, lArabe ^jJJljnaqir ou ^j56* ndqor, qui signifient trompettc, elairon, mais le persan &,(&, en arabe, &)Go uaqdra, timbale It is to be found also in Abyssinia and south ofGondokoro ; it is mentioned in the Sedjarat Malayu. In French, it gives nacaire and gnaca
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . ] petit tambour ou timbale, bassin de cuivre ou de terre reconvert dune peau tendue, and grosses timbales encuivre portees sur un chameau ou un mulet.—Devic {Diet. Etym.) writes: BasLatin, naeara; bas grec, av&xapa. Ce nest point comme on la dit, lArabe ^jJJljnaqir ou ^j56* ndqor, qui signifient trompettc, elairon, mais le persan &,(&, en arabe, &)Go uaqdra, timbale It is to be found also in Abyssinia and south ofGondokoro ; it is mentioned in the Sedjarat Malayu. In French, it gives nacaire and gnacare from the Italian gnaeare. Quatre jouentde la guitare, quatre des castagnettes, quatre des gnacares. (Moliere, PastoraleComiqne.)—H. ~2_ Nakkaras. (From an Indian original.) Note 4.—This description of a fight will recur again and again till we are verytired of it. It is difficult to say whether the style is borrowed from the historians ofthe East or the romancers of the West. Compare the two following parallels. Firstfrom an Oriental history :— The Ear of Heaven was deafened with the din of the great Kurkahs and Drums,and the Earth shook at the clangour of the Trumpets and CNarions. The shafts beganto fall like the rain-drops of spring, and blood flowed till the field looked like the Oxus.(J. A S. ser. IV. torn. xix. 256 ) Next from an Occidental Romance : — Now rist grete labour betyng, Blaweyng of pypes, and ek trumpyng, Stedes lepyng, and ek arnyng, Of sharp spe-res, and avalyng Of stronge knighttes, and wyghth meetyng ; Launces breche and increpyng; Knighttes fallyng, stedes lesyng ; Herte and hevodes thorough kervyng ; Swerdes draweyng, lymes lesyng Hard assaylyng, strong defendyng, Stiff withstondyng a
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