A mysterious power of communication over long distances ig possessed by the Central African natives, hut white men have not yet learned the secret. In referring to this in his lecture in Auckland on his big game hunting, Mr H. H, Ostler stated that on one occasion his mate had left the line of march to hunt, he remaining with the baggage porters. Five rifle shots were heard from a distance of about two miles and within half a minute one of the porters communicated through another, who had a smattering of English, that two antelopes of a particular kind had been killed. This proved to be the truth. It was quite impossible for a voice to carryover the distance, and it could only bo surmised that the natives had some power of telepathy. Other instances of the same kind were encountered on the trip. The beverage that benefits—WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS—ft drink, a tonic, a taadidne.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18320, 10 August 1921, Page 2
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