Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries. To white men who have lived all their
Speaker 1: lives in Africa. The feats performed by the witch doctors
Speaker 1: are beyond understanding, but anyone who has lived in Africa
Speaker 1: knows them to be true, whereas those who have not
Speaker 1: lived in Africa dismissed these phenomena by saying I don't
Speaker 1: believe it. The mere saying I don't believe it does not, however,
Speaker 1: dispose of the proven fact.
Speaker 2: M But the day of.
Speaker 3: The first past.
Speaker 1: From both banks of the Kalibar River in West Africa,
Speaker 1: the dense jungle stretches forward into tomorrow and backward into yesterday.
Speaker 1: A soggy, muggy fog rises perpetually from the dank moss.
Speaker 1: And in the midst of this nature's primal setting, Harry Hockey,
Speaker 1: an ivory trader, has made his home an old hulk
Speaker 1: of a boat with masts cut away and superstructure remodeled
Speaker 1: floats on the Kalibar River, and this is Harry home. Tonight,
Speaker 1: the Ivory trader is entertaining a safari bound for the
Speaker 1: Gold Coast Natives, glistening black in the moonlight, carry away
Speaker 1: the empty dinner dishes as the guests with Harry in
Speaker 1: their midst settled down to coffee and cigar, and U says,
Speaker 1: you have a very comfortable home herend the river. Oh yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: this all hurt has been my trading post or home
Speaker 1: combined for the best part of sixty years.
Speaker 2: You do you have belong to your native country hair
Speaker 2: hockey Ooh. Once in a long, long.
Speaker 4: While, perhaps I think of it her, But this Africa
Speaker 4: is in my blood. Take me away from it, will
Speaker 4: I would die. There's something about it that gets you.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you do think it's the jungle, and then you
Speaker 4: think it's the natives. Then you say to yourself, perhaps
Speaker 4: it's the witch doctor soon their magic, and then you
Speaker 4: sum it all.
Speaker 1: Up and decide that it's Africa. You mentioned which doctor
Speaker 1: there are? Ye tell me, honestly, there's no time out here.
Speaker 4: Do they do half the things they're credited with? Your
Speaker 4: Captain Parklay they do. I could keep you up all
Speaker 4: night with stories of.
Speaker 2: Their black magic.
Speaker 4: I could make your blood run cold telling you of
Speaker 4: some of the things I have seen with my own eyes.
Speaker 4: But we shan't call it black magic, because often as not,
Speaker 4: what they do is as white as any white man's medicine.
Speaker 2: What do you mean by that hair hacket?
Speaker 4: I owe my life to black magic, so called you do,
Speaker 4: let's hear about it. I know a lot about this
Speaker 4: Africa now, but when I first come out here, I
Speaker 4: knew nothing nothing. I laughed at witch doctors, I pooh
Speaker 4: poohed black magic. I why I was a white man,
Speaker 4: and what did these poor black heavens know? Anyhow, I
Speaker 4: was out on the trail of a load of ivory,
Speaker 4: six weeks away from whom.
Speaker 2: I was when I went down with fever. I'm spoken our.
Speaker 2: When Fritz Hoffmann were with me. I remember it.
Speaker 4: Was night and the lions they were out on the
Speaker 4: prowl whom the jungle was uneasy because we white men.
Speaker 2: Had evaded it. Hed that be my cant night, Harriot.
Speaker 2: Maybe so it is harm Oh, I am tired. I
Speaker 2: think I have the fever here.
Speaker 1: It is the fever that you have, Harry, that it
Speaker 1: Isn't you take the fine my yaya tricks.
Speaker 5: Order the boys to make a fire. We can camp here,
Speaker 5: and when they have the baggage laid out, I will
Speaker 5: find the crying.
Speaker 2: I don't take it. Of all they might vomit here.
Speaker 4: This number one place born up for make camp. You
Speaker 4: pick them number one. Wanna I get them boys picking Boma?
Speaker 2: Yeah that is a good cooler here, Harry, at that?
Speaker 2: How you lie down here? I thank you. Finish. It's
Speaker 2: the climbin, Harry, in.
Speaker 5: The package with the yellow waterproof covering, in this enameled box. Harry, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: you perished the one. Now it's a white paper package.
Speaker 4: A package here, looking Harry, nine on here what the
Speaker 4: other pails gave us?
Speaker 2: Look? It must be there, it must be there.
Speaker 1: Radically, the two men tear open the bails lying on
Speaker 1: the ground. The native carriers draw.
Speaker 2: Back into the shadows as they see.
Speaker 1: The look of despair on Harry's face, the looks of
Speaker 1: anguish on the faces of his two friends.
Speaker 2: Again and again.
Speaker 1: They searched the bales, but the light saving finine is
Speaker 1: not to be found.
Speaker 4: Didn't play. The two friends seat themselves beside Harry. The
Speaker 4: natives draw further into the deeper shadows. Even the jungle beasts,
Speaker 4: sensing the approach of death, draw off into the dense underbrush,
Speaker 4: leaving the three white men to their faces. Fritz here's
Speaker 4: a step behind him, and looks up to see cooler
Speaker 4: the number one boy is standing looking down at him.
Speaker 4: White man medicine no gotten.
Speaker 2: Nine cooler, white man medicine, No God.
Speaker 4: Harry Bonner die, white man medicine, No can find quiet cooler.
Speaker 5: Yeah here, Fritz, you're cooler, Harry boarder die. Oh you
Speaker 5: take Harry Barner back to live a home.
Speaker 2: You will leave me here, Sherry, Yeah, he'll take you
Speaker 2: back there.
Speaker 4: White man believe black man medicine. Erry wanna no die,
Speaker 4: that's just got cooler Harry Bonner and Bonner frit wanna
Speaker 4: believe black man witch doctor. Then Harry Warner, no die.
Speaker 1: Me, Fritz believe anything, gives anything everything.
Speaker 2: If Harry buanna call me, I do the same thing.
Speaker 4: Cooler he speak, witch doctor, this white man medicine. Where
Speaker 4: you leave him?
Speaker 2: Can you hear Harry there? Did you leave the cine?
Speaker 2: It must be on the desk in my room? I
Speaker 2: remember now, I.
Speaker 3: Forgot to park here here.
Speaker 4: Never mind that. Now Harry quine quinine, that white man medicine.
Speaker 4: Yah kula, witch doctor man, he gets him a cooler.
Speaker 4: It is six weeks journey back of the river. Even
Speaker 4: the fastest runner could not do it in less.
Speaker 2: Than five we go now, sneak witch doctor.
Speaker 4: If witch doctors say yes you no speak, no say
Speaker 4: one word?
Speaker 2: You sit you look see.
Speaker 4: All right, but no sneak, no move, yeah, yeah, cooler
Speaker 4: anything but you say, Kula moves.
Speaker 1: Into the shadows.
Speaker 2: The seconds creep by like ours.
Speaker 1: Each man hears the beating of his own heart, and
Speaker 1: each man is afraid to look at his friend. Fritz
Speaker 1: draws a deep, hissing breath as the witch doctor, an
Speaker 1: old man hideous.
Speaker 2: To look at, comes into the rim of the firelight with.
Speaker 1: A sharpened twig. The witch doctor draws a crude circle
Speaker 1: on the ground. Then he gazes fix at me it
Speaker 1: Harry lying before him in semisuba. Now the witch Doctor
Speaker 1: lies down in the circle, and Kula, bending over him,
Speaker 1: ties his hands and feet. Slowly, the native carriers, men
Speaker 1: and women come into the ruddy globe of the firelight,
Speaker 1: and slowly they begin to circle the witch doctor. The
Speaker 1: drums begin to throb softly at first, then as the
Speaker 1: stating of bare feet becomes more vigorous, the circling more rapid.
Speaker 1: The drum props become a frenzied feet.
Speaker 4: One by one, the natives fall exhausted to the ground.
Speaker 4: The long light drags on.
Speaker 1: The pale light of day breaks over the tree tops
Speaker 1: and through the branches. One single ray of light falls
Speaker 1: on the witch doctor's feet.
Speaker 2: Half has a rich look. Look at the witch doctor's
Speaker 2: feet of wise package, gott In Himmel the package, not
Speaker 2: Harry left it all? How you have Fritz if Fight, Heckage, Fitch,
Speaker 2: look mine. I'm good, lord, dearie. I can hardly believe it.
Speaker 2: I can. Your story was so real myself. I was
Speaker 2: actually there sitting beside in the jungle. I saw it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I am an old man now, But I
Speaker 4: have not forgotten that night. I should think you wouldn't.
Speaker 4: It must have been horrible, your captain Parklay. But you
Speaker 4: see now why I say that black magic saved my life?
Speaker 2: But how do you account for it?
Speaker 4: How do you explain the transporting of that quinine over
Speaker 4: six weeks distance?
Speaker 2: In what I cannot be served?
Speaker 4: And of course I have tried to explain it to myself.
Speaker 4: An the period explanation very well. I will put excuse
Speaker 4: me a moment. I am forgetting. I must see that.
Speaker 2: The guards are posted.
Speaker 1: While here, Hearty says to the posting of the guards,
Speaker 1: your sponsor has a word for you. After that you
Speaker 1: will hear an explanation inasmuch as all.
Speaker 2: The characters of our story are long since dead.
Speaker 1: In bringing them back to life, the dramatized solution of
Speaker 1: this mystery must have necessity taken considerable liberties with time,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the solution for.
Speaker 2: What you have been waiting to begin with.
Speaker 4: I should explain that I have done a great deal
Speaker 4: of reading in order to find the scientific explanation of
Speaker 4: some of the things achieved by the witch doctors Hockey
Speaker 4: Will Sir cher Ands Frasiers Golden Gold, White One Black
Speaker 4: Magic by doctor Hartman, Roaring Bones, that.
Speaker 2: Frig withstovin Sweden.
Speaker 4: The yah seems to me that he says something about
Speaker 4: a rifle being transported.
Speaker 2: Over a great distance in the short space of time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that is right.
Speaker 4: When he speaks of one of the obi who transported
Speaker 4: himself from the hinterland to a coast in the night
Speaker 4: every time he wanted to count his money back at
Speaker 4: the trading post.
Speaker 2: You understand, thoughts.
Speaker 4: Can go to any locality, no matter how far, because
Speaker 4: all locality is within the sphere of the mind. That
Speaker 4: is reasonable under ordinary circumstances. Even though thoughts are sent
Speaker 4: out into the realm of mind, actual consciousness remains with
Speaker 4: the body. You mean, then there is only one more
Speaker 4: step to send you in herself, so to speak, on
Speaker 4: a journey, so that you'll be aware of everything you've
Speaker 4: seen or heard and can remember it when you return
Speaker 4: to ordinary consciousness.
Speaker 2: Yah yah, that is it, won't you see? The witch doctor,
Speaker 2: which fret soon.
Speaker 4: Hunts on the native boys, all concentrating on bringing the
Speaker 4: quinine who save me, made.
Speaker 2: It possible for the witch doctors at through a.
Speaker 4: Body, although I do not like that word, but it
Speaker 4: made it possible for him to travel back to the
Speaker 4: trading post when returned with the Klinid. That's the fact,
Speaker 4: of course, that the witch doctor has been practicing that
Speaker 4: very thing for.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you are right.
Speaker 4: People forget to credit to other people the ability to
Speaker 4: do things that they themselves cannot do.
Speaker 2: Just as some.
Speaker 4: People are inclined to think of the witch doctors as fakes. Well,
Speaker 4: I'll admit that after your story tonight, I'll never think
Speaker 4: of a witch doctor as a fake again.
Speaker 3: It doesn't be the trusts att