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Show The Sex of the Planes. When thu negroes of Stanloy Pool saw tho first two airships of tho Belgian Bel-gian postal servlco land In tho Congo region, their first lmpulso wns to run awuy. However, on recognizing the uniform of thu olllcers who descended from tho apparatus, thoy Immediately returned. Tho next day their fear had completely com-pletely disappeared. Why should thoy bo afraid of theso big birds? Were thoy not tamed by tho whlto men? For thoy wero surely a couplo of bluls; and without hesitation thoy polutod out tho innlo bird and then tho female. Asked by what they could distinguish distin-guish ono from tho other, they replied that It was not dlfllcult. Tho birds did not know tho country; the tunlo bird descended first, then ho called his fo-male, fo-male, that enmo down to land after him. It la Mr. Louis Franck, minister of tho Belgian colonies, who told this story ut tho Sorbonne. |