pseudo-steeds

Updated: May 13, 2025

In the centre of the room two Sidis are sitting, in cock-horse fashion, astride what appear to be wooden imitations of a cannon and beating the parchment- covered mouths of their pseudo-steeds with their hands; at their feet a third Sidi is playing a kind of reveille upon a flattened kerosine oil-tin; and in the corner, with his back to the audience, an immense African an ebony Pan blowing frenzy through his wide lips is forcing the whole weight of his lungs into a narrow reed pipe.

S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes - By-Ways of Bombay