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FOR the word chumfo I am indebted to a tribe 

 of savages living near Lake Mweru, in Africa, 

 and am grateful to them not only for naming a 

 thing which has no name in any civilized language, 

 but also for an explanation of its function in the 

 animal economy. We shall come to the definition 

 of the word presently, after we have some clear 

 notion of the thing for which the word stands. 

 As Thomas a Kempis says, if I remember correctly, 

 "It is better to feel compassion than to know how 

 to define it." 



By way of approach to our subject, let it be 

 understood that chumfo refers in a general way to 

 the animal's extraordinary powers of sense per- 



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