Int. We deserved it, etc.
A similar “call” is described in Ainsworth’s “all around the world,” p. 106.
“At last we begged to take our leave, and began violently to ‘tsing-tsing,’ a ceremony which consists in clasping your hands before your breast, and making a crouching baboon-like gesture; it is the equivalent of shaking hands, only one shakes one’s own hands.... Our host insists on following us to our chairs. We remonstrate; ‘stop! stop! we are unworthy,’ say we. ‘What language is this’ he replies. ‘We are really unworthy’ we reiterate. ‘You are in my house,’ he insists; and so we back to our chairs, perpetually imploring him not to accompany us, which he vehemently resists, until at last, when we are in our chairs, he reluctantly consents to return, apologising to the last, for being so rude as to leave us even then.”
[149]Japan, Aime Humbert, p. 173.
[150]Ambros, Gesch. d. Mus. v. 1, p. 38.
[151]Ibid, 39.
[152]See Article on Egypt.
[153]Fetis, Hist. de la Mus. v. 1, p. 84.
[154]Humbert’s Japan, p. 174.
[155]Siebold, Pantheon of Nipon, part C, plates