THE MONKEYFOLK OF SOUTH AFRICA 63 



thought waves penetrated down into my brain and set 

 certain grey brain cells into violent motion, and my story 

 unwound itself from my brain and flew to him. It wasn't 

 necessary for me to actually go into his presence. There 

 is a strange power which some of the humanfolk possess, 

 by which they can focus their minds and get them con- 

 nected up with another brain, even thousands of miles away. 

 The inspiration came to me, and I told about the time 

 when the humanfolk in this country began quarrelling 

 among themselves. Their wise men tried to make peace, 

 but the quarrel had gone too far. You see, the humanfolk 

 are just like us animalfolk. When their brain gets heated 

 they want to fight. So they began fighting with each other. 

 The animal parts of the humanfolk's brains haven't been 

 half bred out yet. When their brains are more highly 

 evolved, the various clans, which you call nations, will 

 settle their differences without first murdering thousands 

 of each other, making hosts of widows and orphans, and 

 upsetting the business of the whole country. 



We baboonfolk, it is true, look upon other clans of 

 baboonfolk as enemies. But it is because we don't know 

 any better. Our brains are not sufficiently developed yet 

 to reason out things and come to a mutual agreement with 

 each other when any of the unwritten laws of the baboonfolk 

 are broken. We don't know any better, so we just follow 

 the promptings of our low, animal instincts and fight 

 fiercely. When the humanfolk fight and quarrel, and bear 

 malice and say spiteful things about each other, they are 

 giving way to the promptings of their animal instincts 

 which they have inherited from the apefolk. 



HOW WE SCARED THE ROOI-NEKS 



When the humanfolk were doing their best to kill others 

 of their kind, whom they have never even seen let alone 



