HOSPITAL’S MAGIC ROOM

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4011, 4 August 1931, Page 7

HOSPITAL’S MAGIC ROOM

AFRICAN CHIEF SCARED Three African chiefs went into a magic room at St. Thomas’s Hospital. London, S.E., and saw marvels stranger than any witch doctor’s When they came out Mwami Francis Lwamugira, secretary oi the duels Council of Bukoha, in Tanganyika, said in a torrent of amazed words: “ I stood before a screen —and they all laughed at me. Then another stood before the screen, and lo! J could see inside Ins body. There were all ins bones, and I could see his heart in his bodv moving inside him. And his watch, though it was in his pocket, 1 could see it The eyes of Chief Makwaia bulged in his ebony face, and when he was asked if lie" would go into the magic room he shook his head resolutely. Nor would the other chiefs stand before the screen which turned their bodies into glass. This occurred during a tour hospital by the native rulers of Tanganyika and Kenya, who are to give evidence before the Joint Select Committee on East Airica. Chief Makwaia. who has several wives, seemed particularly delighted in a children’s ward. He bent over a tiny baby in a cot and talked to it in African baby language, with his face wreathed in smiles.

lu Llicr morning the chiefs visited Buckingham Palace. “ ibis is .indeed kingliness!” one ol them said. ( Thev were curious about the Guards’ bearskins. When they were told what they" were one answered ; “ Ah, the bear. 1 know —the animal that travels about Europe and eats people.”