The trial is rare everywhere in the world, except in Melanesia and Polynesia. The most complicated number system with a five-fold division, including a quadrual (four), is reported for Marshalese in the Pacific but does not occur at all in Africa.

Please move down inside the carriage to allow other passengers to board the train.

The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound. Such exoticisms as the xylorimba (Richard Fitz) and glockenspiel (Jeffrey Milarsky) are introduced along with the sounds of shifting sand.

But once on the more secure purchase of the macadamised main road, their driver turned off his gig-lamps and let the passengers swell slowly into drowsy sleep as he set sail for distant Avignon.