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to him for advice; and while he was among them 

 they were not afraid of being raided by other 

 tribes, for they said he would see that they were 

 not interfered with by anybody.' " 



Immediately after poor Neumann's death 

 occurred one of those strange events with which 

 we are occasionally confronted in life, and which 

 are as interesting as they are difficult to explain 

 even by scientific men who have made the subject 

 of spirit materialisation their especial study. We 

 may or may not believe in the communion of two 

 spirits who are so closely in sympathy with each 

 other that both thought transference and even 

 spirit manifestation between them is possible, 

 but that it does occur in rare instances seems to be 

 an undoubted fact. I will therefore make no 

 further comment on the following extraordinary 

 events, but merely state facts which I believe to 

 be quite above all suspicion either of fraud or 

 hallucination. 



It would appear that about the year 1876 Arthur 

 Neumann and his brother Charles, whilst farming 

 in Natal, were intimately associated with a family 

 named Jackson, who had a little daughter named 

 Noomi, to whom Arthur was devotedly attached. 

 She was his godchild, and as she grew up Arthur, 

 who had considerable private means, asked leave 

 to adopt her, but this was refused. Between 

 Noomi and the hunter, however, there existed a 

 bond of affection which was so close and intimate 

 that neither time nor absence affected. She ad- 

 dressed him always as " Uncle Arthur," and wrote 

 to him constantly of all her childish hopes and 



