After they are joined by a female guide, Malu (Nathania Stanford), the six row for weeks, then land and hear native drums.

"Do you suppose there will be monkeys in coconut trees and savages with spears; castaways from wrecked ships and romantic things like that; cannibals and native drums?"

"Hark to the native drums," I said.

There are three drums, native to Panama, used in the performance of the Tamborito: the "Caja", the "Pujas" and the "Repicador".

Thus every one of these freed slaves seemed to be howling his loudest to an accompaniment of clashing iron pots or stones, which, lacking their native drums, they beat with sticks.

So do the native drums.

Burgess described his Sinfoni Melayu as an attempt to "combine the musical elements of the country into a synthetic language which called on native drums and xylophones."

His heart pounded like native drums in Tyrone's head.

Convoys of activists from the American Indian Movement in Minneapolis also joined the protests, bringing native drums to sound above emergency power generators and protesters' chants.

Later, while native drums beat, the repressed Davidson succumbs to his lust and rapes her.