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Old Doc Mann, our own Zoo 
keeper, is having the time of 
ihis life deep in Liberia’s jungles, 
I according to expedition reports 
he is sending back to the Smith- 
| sonian Institution here. 
He rides in state in a canopy-covered 
hammock carried on the beads o t four 
jungle boys, is triumphantly received 
in the native villages, and even is al¬ 
lowed tc witness many of the bush 
country tribes sacred rites. 
SEES ‘DEVIL DANCE' 
One of these was the mysterious 
“devil dance." . 
“As we were approaching s. lunghc 
village at dusk, our party was stopped 
and told that all of us, inducting the 
1 native hammock boys, would have to 
retire to huts and remain seciuciea icr 
the night because the bush devil was 
due to pass thru that night,” Dr. Mann 
“No person not a member of the 
‘devil's’ own secret society, the natives 
said, could look upon 
i dreadful conseouences. Native bo_,s 
scattered in terror to huts prouuea foi 
them and did not venture to look out 
until daylight.” 
SUBSTITUTE PERFORMS 
The next dav a substitute*‘‘devil v. as 
produced to allay Dr. Mann’s curiosity. 
For the benefit of Dr. Manns party, 
the substitute performed the same sort 
of dance which the real devil is sup¬ 
posed to stage. . ... 
‘‘He was clad in what .00 tied like 
miles and miles of raffia,” says Dr. 
Mann, “and he resembled a moving 
havstack with a tremendous mask on 
his head. He did an acrobatic Gance, 
changing his height two or three times 
from about three to eight iee. by sud 
denly shooting up and elevating his 
mask. All these dances were accom¬ 
panied by a most harmonious chantmg. 
“The natives cannot understand w y 
wc wan t live wild animals lor the Na¬ 
tional Zoo. They say that the amm*Js 
are good for only one purpose—to be 
killed and eaten/’ 
