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ences of the miraculous way in which messages were 

 transmitted over long distances. Often, when a well 

 known Chief or White Man has died, within twenty- 

 minutes or half an hour one of my boys has brought 

 the message to me. Perhaps four or five days later I 

 would receive an official communication by runner who 

 had started off to bring word to me soon after the event 

 happened. But the explanation of the means by which 

 the African performs this rapid and spontaneous trans- 

 mission of thought and feeling through great distances, 

 has yet to be adequately shown. 



For a long time it has been thought that in Africa a 

 definite drum code was used, but those who have taken 

 pains to study carefully and investigate the mystery of 

 rapid communication, are coming to the conclusion that 

 the drumming is used primarily for signalling or for 

 creating an atmosphere in which the reception of the 

 messages is possible. 



There is still a mystery surrounding the whole ques- 

 tion; but it must of course be borne in mind that the 

 messages which the African has to transmit are of neces- 

 sity limited to the scope of his primitive necessities. But 

 with this inherent capacity for the transmission of mes- 

 sages, I am convinced that all that African natives need 

 is proper instruction and direction in order to become 

 experts in this great modern invention, and when once 

 established as a means of communication, there is no 

 reason to doubt that it will be accepted as just another 

 example of the white man's magic, and good "Ju-ju." 



