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<v Speaker 1>Unsolved mysteries. To white men who have lived all their

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<v Speaker 1>lives in Africa. The feats performed by the witch doctors

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<v Speaker 1>are beyond understanding, but anyone who has lived in Africa

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<v Speaker 1>knows them to be true, whereas those who have not

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<v Speaker 1>lived in Africa dismissed these phenomena by saying I don't

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<v Speaker 1>believe it. The mere saying I don't believe it does not, however,

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<v Speaker 1>dispose of the proven fact.

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<v Speaker 2>M But the day of.

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<v Speaker 3>The first past.

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<v Speaker 1>From both banks of the Kalibar River in West Africa,

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<v Speaker 1>the dense jungle stretches forward into tomorrow and backward into yesterday.

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<v Speaker 1>A soggy, muggy fog rises perpetually from the dank moss.

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<v Speaker 1>And in the midst of this nature's primal setting, Harry Hockey,

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<v Speaker 1>an ivory trader, has made his home an old hulk

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<v Speaker 1>of a boat with masts cut away and superstructure remodeled

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<v Speaker 1>floats on the Kalibar River, and this is Harry home. Tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>the Ivory trader is entertaining a safari bound for the

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<v Speaker 1>Gold Coast Natives, glistening black in the moonlight, carry away

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<v Speaker 1>the empty dinner dishes as the guests with Harry in

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<v Speaker 1>their midst settled down to coffee and cigar, and U says,

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<v Speaker 1>you have a very comfortable home herend the river. Oh yeah, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>this all hurt has been my trading post or home

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<v Speaker 1>combined for the best part of sixty years.

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<v Speaker 2>You do you have belong to your native country hair

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<v Speaker 2>hockey Ooh. Once in a long, long.

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<v Speaker 4>While, perhaps I think of it her, But this Africa

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<v Speaker 4>is in my blood. Take me away from it, will

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<v Speaker 4>I would die. There's something about it that gets you.

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<v Speaker 4>Sometimes you do think it's the jungle, and then you

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<v Speaker 4>think it's the natives. Then you say to yourself, perhaps

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<v Speaker 4>it's the witch doctor soon their magic, and then you

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<v Speaker 4>sum it all.

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<v Speaker 1>Up and decide that it's Africa. You mentioned which doctor

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<v Speaker 1>there are? Ye tell me, honestly, there's no time out here.

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<v Speaker 4>Do they do half the things they're credited with? Your

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<v Speaker 4>Captain Parklay they do. I could keep you up all

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<v Speaker 4>night with stories of.

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<v Speaker 2>Their black magic.

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<v Speaker 4>I could make your blood run cold telling you of

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<v Speaker 4>some of the things I have seen with my own eyes.

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<v Speaker 4>But we shan't call it black magic, because often as not,

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<v Speaker 4>what they do is as white as any white man's medicine.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you mean by that hair hacket?

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<v Speaker 4>I owe my life to black magic, so called you do,

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<v Speaker 4>let's hear about it. I know a lot about this

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<v Speaker 4>Africa now, but when I first come out here, I

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<v Speaker 4>knew nothing nothing. I laughed at witch doctors, I pooh

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<v Speaker 4>poohed black magic. I why I was a white man,

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<v Speaker 4>and what did these poor black heavens know? Anyhow, I

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<v Speaker 4>was out on the trail of a load of ivory,

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<v Speaker 4>six weeks away from whom.

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<v Speaker 2>I was when I went down with fever. I'm spoken our.

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<v Speaker 2>When Fritz Hoffmann were with me. I remember it.

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<v Speaker 4>Was night and the lions they were out on the

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<v Speaker 4>prowl whom the jungle was uneasy because we white men.

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<v Speaker 2>Had evaded it. Hed that be my cant night, Harriot.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe so it is harm Oh, I am tired. I

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<v Speaker 2>think I have the fever here.

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<v Speaker 1>It is the fever that you have, Harry, that it

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't you take the fine my yaya tricks.

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<v Speaker 5>Order the boys to make a fire. We can camp here,

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<v Speaker 5>and when they have the baggage laid out, I will

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<v Speaker 5>find the crying.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't take it. Of all they might vomit here.

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<v Speaker 4>This number one place born up for make camp. You

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<v Speaker 4>pick them number one. Wanna I get them boys picking Boma?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah that is a good cooler here, Harry, at that?

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<v Speaker 2>How you lie down here? I thank you. Finish. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the climbin, Harry, in.

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<v Speaker 5>The package with the yellow waterproof covering, in this enameled box. Harry, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 5>you perished the one. Now it's a white paper package.

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<v Speaker 4>A package here, looking Harry, nine on here what the

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<v Speaker 4>other pails gave us?

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<v Speaker 2>Look? It must be there, it must be there.

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<v Speaker 1>Radically, the two men tear open the bails lying on

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<v Speaker 1>the ground. The native carriers draw.

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<v Speaker 2>Back into the shadows as they see.

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<v Speaker 1>The look of despair on Harry's face, the looks of

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<v Speaker 1>anguish on the faces of his two friends.

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<v Speaker 2>Again and again.

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<v Speaker 1>They searched the bales, but the light saving finine is

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<v Speaker 1>not to be found.

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<v Speaker 4>Didn't play. The two friends seat themselves beside Harry. The

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<v Speaker 4>natives draw further into the deeper shadows. Even the jungle beasts,

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<v Speaker 4>sensing the approach of death, draw off into the dense underbrush,

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<v Speaker 4>leaving the three white men to their faces. Fritz here's

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<v Speaker 4>a step behind him, and looks up to see cooler

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<v Speaker 4>the number one boy is standing looking down at him.

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<v Speaker 4>White man medicine no gotten.

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<v Speaker 2>Nine cooler, white man medicine, No God.

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<v Speaker 4>Harry Bonner die, white man medicine, No can find quiet cooler.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah here, Fritz, you're cooler, Harry boarder die. Oh you

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<v Speaker 5>take Harry Barner back to live a home.

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<v Speaker 2>You will leave me here, Sherry, Yeah, he'll take you

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<v Speaker 2>back there.

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<v Speaker 4>White man believe black man medicine. Erry wanna no die,

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<v Speaker 4>that's just got cooler Harry Bonner and Bonner frit wanna

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<v Speaker 4>believe black man witch doctor. Then Harry Warner, no die.

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<v Speaker 1>Me, Fritz believe anything, gives anything everything.

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<v Speaker 2>If Harry buanna call me, I do the same thing.

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<v Speaker 4>Cooler he speak, witch doctor, this white man medicine. Where

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<v Speaker 4>you leave him?

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<v Speaker 2>Can you hear Harry there? Did you leave the cine?

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<v Speaker 2>It must be on the desk in my room? I

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<v Speaker 2>remember now, I.

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<v Speaker 3>Forgot to park here here.

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<v Speaker 4>Never mind that. Now Harry quine quinine, that white man medicine.

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<v Speaker 4>Yah kula, witch doctor man, he gets him a cooler.

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<v Speaker 4>It is six weeks journey back of the river. Even

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<v Speaker 4>the fastest runner could not do it in less.

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<v Speaker 2>Than five we go now, sneak witch doctor.

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<v Speaker 4>If witch doctors say yes you no speak, no say

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<v Speaker 4>one word?

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<v Speaker 2>You sit you look see.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, but no sneak, no move, yeah, yeah, cooler

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<v Speaker 4>anything but you say, Kula moves.

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<v Speaker 1>Into the shadows.

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<v Speaker 2>The seconds creep by like ours.

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<v Speaker 1>Each man hears the beating of his own heart, and

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<v Speaker 1>each man is afraid to look at his friend. Fritz

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<v Speaker 1>draws a deep, hissing breath as the witch doctor, an

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<v Speaker 1>old man hideous.

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<v Speaker 2>To look at, comes into the rim of the firelight with.

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<v Speaker 1>A sharpened twig. The witch doctor draws a crude circle

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<v Speaker 1>on the ground. Then he gazes fix at me it

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<v Speaker 1>Harry lying before him in semisuba. Now the witch Doctor

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<v Speaker 1>lies down in the circle, and Kula, bending over him,

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<v Speaker 1>ties his hands and feet. Slowly, the native carriers, men

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<v Speaker 1>and women come into the ruddy globe of the firelight,

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<v Speaker 1>and slowly they begin to circle the witch doctor. The

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<v Speaker 1>drums begin to throb softly at first, then as the

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<v Speaker 1>stating of bare feet becomes more vigorous, the circling more rapid.

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<v Speaker 1>The drum props become a frenzied feet.

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<v Speaker 4>One by one, the natives fall exhausted to the ground.

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<v Speaker 4>The long light drags on.

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<v Speaker 1>The pale light of day breaks over the tree tops

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<v Speaker 1>and through the branches. One single ray of light falls

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<v Speaker 1>on the witch doctor's feet.

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<v Speaker 2>Half has a rich look. Look at the witch doctor's

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<v Speaker 2>feet of wise package, gott In Himmel the package, not

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<v Speaker 2>Harry left it all? How you have Fritz if Fight, Heckage, Fitch,

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<v Speaker 2>look mine. I'm good, lord, dearie. I can hardly believe it.

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<v Speaker 2>I can. Your story was so real myself. I was

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<v Speaker 2>actually there sitting beside in the jungle. I saw it all.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, I am an old man now, But I

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<v Speaker 4>have not forgotten that night. I should think you wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 4>It must have been horrible, your captain Parklay. But you

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<v Speaker 4>see now why I say that black magic saved my life?

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<v Speaker 2>But how do you account for it?

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<v Speaker 4>How do you explain the transporting of that quinine over

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<v Speaker 4>six weeks distance?

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<v Speaker 2>In what I cannot be served?

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<v Speaker 4>And of course I have tried to explain it to myself.

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<v Speaker 4>An the period explanation very well. I will put excuse

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<v Speaker 4>me a moment. I am forgetting. I must see that.

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<v Speaker 2>The guards are posted.

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<v Speaker 1>While here, Hearty says to the posting of the guards,

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<v Speaker 1>your sponsor has a word for you. After that you

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<v Speaker 1>will hear an explanation inasmuch as all.

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<v Speaker 2>The characters of our story are long since dead.

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<v Speaker 1>In bringing them back to life, the dramatized solution of

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<v Speaker 1>this mystery must have necessity taken considerable liberties with time,

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<v Speaker 1>Ladies and gentlemen, the solution for.

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<v Speaker 2>What you have been waiting to begin with.

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<v Speaker 4>I should explain that I have done a great deal

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<v Speaker 4>of reading in order to find the scientific explanation of

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<v Speaker 4>some of the things achieved by the witch doctors Hockey

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<v Speaker 4>Will Sir cher Ands Frasiers Golden Gold, White One Black

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<v Speaker 4>Magic by doctor Hartman, Roaring Bones, that.

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<v Speaker 2>Frig withstovin Sweden.

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<v Speaker 4>The yah seems to me that he says something about

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<v Speaker 4>a rifle being transported.

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<v Speaker 2>Over a great distance in the short space of time. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>that is right.

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<v Speaker 4>When he speaks of one of the obi who transported

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<v Speaker 4>himself from the hinterland to a coast in the night

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<v Speaker 4>every time he wanted to count his money back at

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<v Speaker 4>the trading post.

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<v Speaker 2>You understand, thoughts.

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<v Speaker 4>Can go to any locality, no matter how far, because

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<v Speaker 4>all locality is within the sphere of the mind. That

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<v Speaker 4>is reasonable under ordinary circumstances. Even though thoughts are sent

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<v Speaker 4>out into the realm of mind, actual consciousness remains with

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<v Speaker 4>the body. You mean, then there is only one more

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<v Speaker 4>step to send you in herself, so to speak, on

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<v Speaker 4>a journey, so that you'll be aware of everything you've

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<v Speaker 4>seen or heard and can remember it when you return

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<v Speaker 4>to ordinary consciousness.

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<v Speaker 2>Yah yah, that is it, won't you see? The witch doctor,

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<v Speaker 2>which fret soon.

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<v Speaker 4>Hunts on the native boys, all concentrating on bringing the

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<v Speaker 4>quinine who save me, made.

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<v Speaker 2>It possible for the witch doctors at through a.

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<v Speaker 4>Body, although I do not like that word, but it

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<v Speaker 4>made it possible for him to travel back to the

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<v Speaker 4>trading post when returned with the Klinid. That's the fact,

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<v Speaker 4>of course, that the witch doctor has been practicing that

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<v Speaker 4>very thing for.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, you are right.

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<v Speaker 4>People forget to credit to other people the ability to

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<v Speaker 4>do things that they themselves cannot do.

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<v Speaker 2>Just as some.

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<v Speaker 4>People are inclined to think of the witch doctors as fakes. Well,

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<v Speaker 4>I'll admit that after your story tonight, I'll never think

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<v Speaker 4>of a witch doctor as a fake again.

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<v Speaker 3>It doesn't be the trusts att